How to send data from external device to OS with rs232 and fake it as a mouse

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I have a project that i need to send some data with an RS232 to USB cable from external Msp430 launchpad to the computer and fake it as a mouse. Is this possible without learning USB protocols of the mouse?

Best Answer

You could pretend to be a Microsoft Serial Mouse: http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/serialmouse/

Edit: if that doesn't work, and the computer has a PS/2 mouse port, you can use that: http://www.computer-engineering.org/ps2protocol/

Otherwise you're going to have to get a microcontroller with USB support and learn that, which will be time-consuming.