Arduino to wireless HID

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Arduino to wireless HID

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Hi peeps,

What's the simplest/cheapest way to implement a arduino based wireless HID device ?

At the moment I have an ATMEGA32U4 (Leonard) pretending to be a HID joystick and I'd like to make this wireless.

One thought is to use something like a trinket + receiver (RF or IR ) on the PC end to act as the HID device and then use a trasmitter on the arduino joystick to talk to the trinket.

another would be to go the bluetooth route but the Adafruit bluetooth ez-key just does HID mouse and keyboard (not joystick ?)

Any wisdom gratefully recieved.

Rob

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Re: Arduino to wireless HID

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The EZ-Key can emit HID events: https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing- ... via-serial

And this tutorial shows how to use one to make a wireless game controller: https://learn.adafruit.com/snes-ez-key- ... t-game-pad

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Re: Arduino to wireless HID

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That appears to be limited to key and mouse events. I need something a bit more flexible to act as a HID joystick.

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Re: Arduino to wireless HID

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I'm afraid that's all we have. The EZ-Link can send arbitrary data, but enumerates as a serial connection, not as an HID source.

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