[ale] BT Keyboard to USB

[Alex Carver]

There are no dongles that will support communication with other devices
without a stack loaded and running (the rare exception being BT serial
port devices and BT audio devices).  You could potentially do it with an
Arduino however you would need to have the Arduino present itself on one
side as the USB HID with the right vendor codes to get picked up by the
machine as a keyboard.  The other side of the Arduino could use a BT
receiver with a stack to support the keyboard profile.

On 2015-11-13 09:09, 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. 
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> 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. 
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> 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! 
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> 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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