MicroPython Projects

Opening a COM port using command-line arguments

On the host machine, create a new Python script using your favorite text editor. I recommend naming the script VisualizerTool.py. You could also name it something like RTPlotter.py or anything else that you think provides a good description for the module. Now, follow these steps:

1. Our first step to building the visualizer is to integrate the pySerial library and provide command-line options so that we can select which port the data will be coming in on. In order to do this, we need to import the pySerial and args modules into the script using the following code:

import serialimport argparse

2. We also want to be able to cleanly exit the script if a developer does not provide a communication ...