After seeing me using my ez430, programmable watch to control ppt’s in my Mac, a couple of people asked me explain how I do it. As usual, instead of sending separate emails, I thought of documenting it here, so that it would be useful for others.
The following are the steps you need to follow.
- Plugin the ez430 USB dongle to the USB port of your Mac
- Pair the USB dongle and your ez430 watch
- Install python and Serial library
- Download or clone the ez430 tools repo from github
- Open up your ppt presentation
- Open terminal, navigate to the directory where you have ez430 tools package files and then type the command
python ppt-mac.py - And you are done
Let me know if you face any issues.
Hi.. OSX Lion comes with python but not serial library… how to install?
You can install it using either easy_install or pip
pip install pyserialit works, but when i click, responds twice
Try increasing the delay a bit.