Steve's Junk » graphing http://smackaay.com A showcase of Steven Mackaay's stuff Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:01:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Temperature and light, several days http://smackaay.com/2009/01/21/temperature-and-light-several-days/ http://smackaay.com/2009/01/21/temperature-and-light-several-days/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:41:24 +0000 smackaay http://smackaay.com/?p=431 Continue reading →]]> Well, It’s been a number of days since I built the unit and all’s been tested. Here is a picture of some of the data from my living room over the past several days. The purplish is the temperature and the lighter one is the ambient light. You can see that as the light levels get higher, the furnace stops, thus the temperature stops fluctuating.


The living room temperature as seen over 6 days

The living room temperature as seen over 6 days

Sorry about the small scale of the temperature graph, the graphing program is still a work in progress.

]]> http://smackaay.com/2009/01/21/temperature-and-light-several-days/feed/ 0 Graphing program and viscometer proceeding apace http://smackaay.com/2008/11/19/graphing-program-and-viscometer-proceeding-apace/ http://smackaay.com/2008/11/19/graphing-program-and-viscometer-proceeding-apace/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:50:40 +0000 smackaay http://smackaay.com/?p=257 Continue reading →]]> Well, things are proceeding apace as far as the viscometer is concerned. Unfortunately, the motor is just too non-linear to serve as a useful measuring device. God I’m dumb!

Anyways, my graph-it program is working ok now and producing some useful graphs. I have programmed the save and load features and they seem to work just fine! It will eventually allow for a variety of data analysis techniques.

Here’s a picture of the linearity, or lack thereof.

Reciprocal of motor linearity

Reciprocal of motor linearity

The blue at the bottom represents the overall error , the pinkish is the actual reciprocal of the tach values and the brown is the average of the tach values.

Hopefully I can get this working… Sigh!

]]> http://smackaay.com/2008/11/19/graphing-program-and-viscometer-proceeding-apace/feed/ 0 Writing a new graphing program http://smackaay.com/2008/11/12/writing-a-new-graphing-program/ http://smackaay.com/2008/11/12/writing-a-new-graphing-program/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:06:45 +0000 smackaay http://smackaay.com/?p=240 Continue reading →]]> Since I’m starting to take measurements based on time and value along with multiple data sets, I’ve decided that I need a new graphing program. This one will allow the use of multiple data sets and it will have save files to allow for easy recall of color settings and data parameters. Here are some of the features:

  • Multiple data sets
  • Data sets will have options for coloring and graphing choices
  • New data sets can be derived from existing data sets
  • Data sets can be compared
  • More extensive stats will be used

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This will all be written in FreeBASIC. Why? Because I like it. Also because FBEdit kicks ass in relation to FBIDE.

Anyways, I’ll post incremental versions.

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