[ale] BT Keyboard to USB

Jim Lynch ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Fri Nov 13 13:30:28 EST 2015


The Teensy 3.x part does emulate a keyboard, mouse or game controller.  
It's only $20.  I don't know about a BT adapter for it however.  Check 
with the teensy forum.  They are quite helpful.

On 11/13/2015 12:09 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I bought into a Kickstarter that has produced a Bluetooth keyboard. 
>  Originally is was going to be USB with an attempt at BT.  Now it 
> seems that it was too difficult to do both so they decided on BT only.
>
> I still want this $300 keyboard, but I can't stand BT keyboards.  Good 
> for tablets, but only good on a computer when the OS is loaded and the 
> BT stack is operational.
>
> I typically only use Happy Hacking and I know I can but USB -> BT 
> adapters to convert it to BT.  I'm looking for a device that will run 
> the BT stack as a dongle and convert this BT keyboard to USB.  This 
> would allow me to use it on devices that do not support BT from power 
> up to power down!
>
> Google is showing me the USB Keyboard -> BT instead.  Does anything 
> like I'm describing exist?  If not, could I make one using a small 
> Arduino board.  I would have to use a BT module and then somehow 
> create a USB HID interface.
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