Serial PC Control

Control your PC keyboard and mouse via serial messages from a microcontroller board like the BBC micro:bit or Arduino.

This is done by loading any of the pre-made libraries into the microcontroller board, and then executing in the PC application from this repository.

Embedded libraries to use with this application:

• BBC micro:bit MicroPython module
• BBC micro:bit MakeCode extension not yet done
• Arduino library not yet done

This Is Currently Under Development!

This project is still under heavy development, so it can be a little bit unstable or incomplete.

Current way to install and run it is with poetry:

$ git clone https://github.com/carlosperate/serial-pc-control.git
$ cd serial-pc-control
$ poetry install
$ poetry run python serial_pc_control/process_cmds.py

Current status:

• Controlling the mouse position is working.
• Mouse left click and right click are working.
• Typing text from the keyboard is working.
• Typing special keys from the keyboard (arrow keys, shift, alt, etc) not yet implemented
• Tested in macOS
• Not yet tested in Windows, although it should work
• Not yet tested in Linux, although it should work
• Automatically detecting the micro:bit or Arduino serial port is working.
• CLI interface includes command line arguments to manually select the por and baud rate.
• CLI interface includes command line arguments to manually select the por and baud rate.
• Known issues not yet solved can be found here:
  • https://github.com/carlosperate/serial-pc-control/issues/