Bluetooth 4 and Wifi direct chip development board

You'll find this is often the case, when you try to build something from off the shelf parts that duplicates an existing product, almost always the parts alone will cost more than the existing product. The reason being that they can mass produce their product, buying parts in bulk cuts down on costs etc.

Look closely at the 'serial-over-Bluetooth boards', some of them do in fact support different profiles. What you are looking for is a module that supports the Bluetooth HID profile (Human Interface Device, aka mouse, keyboard, joystick, wii remote, etc).

Check out this previous question, it lists several bluetooth modules, which you can buy in single quantities for fairly reasonable prices, some or all of them should support HID.

Thanks for everyone's comments. I heard back from TI with the following answer regarding this issue.

"Due to something innate in the Mindtree stack, you cannot generate an interrupt in the MSP430 while data is being sent/received via BT. Therefore, you will see a limitation on the throughput in/out of the part. This is something that Mindtree was working on and would be good to ask them through your posting to the E2E forum since the Mindtree engineer “Balaji Jeyaraman” may be able to tell you if they’ve found a way around this or updated the stack. MSP430BT5190 + CC2560 data throughput/loading issues

Along the same lines, TI has posted a Wiki (different than the Bluetooth one) that focuses just on this ‘BT bridge application’. It can be found here: CC256x MT UART BRIDGE We have seen similar limitations and the data rate you are getting is a little faster than what we’ve seen. "

So not the answer I was looking for, but I thought I'd post it here for others. Thank you.