Electrical – Making a USB port transmit wirelessly via bluetooth

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Background:

I have an interactive board which I connect to my PC via usb. The usb connection of the board via pc is it's source of power. Any touch on the board is transmitted to the PC in the form of mouse movement.

Aim:
I want to make this wireless/via a Bluetooth.

Now, I have NO knowledge of hardware at all.

From reading online, I would require a HC-06 Bluetooth module to transmit. After that I can pair the bluetooth from a laptop and read data from the port and move mouse.

My doubt is:

  1. How to supply power?

Consider I connect a 5v battery to the Vcc of the module and somehow connect the HC-06 module to the usb of board. Will it be enough to power the board to work?

  1. How to connect usb of board to HC-06 module?

Somehow connect the usb of board to the RX of the module. Or connect the usb of the board to ardunio(if that makes sense I don't know how to do this). Then connect the usb module to the ardunio.

Make provide clear detailed information due to my lack of knowledge.

Edit:
Any references links will be helpful. Using ardunio then usb shield connect to board. But to transfer data via bluetooth then

Best Answer

Consider I connect a 5v battery to the Vcc of the module and somehow connect the HC-06 module to the usb of board. Will it be enough to power the board to work?

Yes, but only if the battery puts out exactly 5V. No battery chemistry is capable of this, so any 'battery' that does it must have a built-in regulator to stabilize the voltage.

Somehow connect the usb of board to the RX of the module. Or connect the usb of the board to ardunio(if that makes sense I don't know how to do this). Then connect the usb module to the ardunio.

You cannot connect the Powerboard interactive display directly to the HC-06 because they use vastly different communication protocols. To talk to the Powerboard you need a USB host that emulates a Windows PC running the Powerboard USB driver. Theoretically an Arduino could do it, but without knowing the exact protocol used it will be impossible in practice.

The Powerboard has a custom USB driver that only works in Windows. However it appears to be based on a standard Silicon Labs CP210x USB-serial interface, so it might be possible to remove the USB interface from inside the Powerboard and access the serial data directly. This data could then be sent via an rf link to the PC, where you would feed it into the USB interface that you removed from the Powerboard. This is advanced hacking with no guarantee that it will work...

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