Thread: USB device to Bluetooth converter/adapter/mod?

Does anyone know if there's an adapter (or a way to make one) to make a USB device work with Bluetooth? I tried goggling and all I get are the Bluetooth receivers that plug into a USB slot on the PC.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find one.

As Bluetooth wants power for the transmission, you'd require some kind of outside power source as well.

Somebody is there most likely has it, but making one would involve getting the Bluetooth spec for the power supplies.

I feel the difficulty with that is that you kind of make it a 'wired' device if you plug it into the wall. Which appealing much defeats the purpose of Bluetooth. Maybe w/ a battery pack?

*complaint*

Well if Logitech or someone would just make a Bluetooth track ("the track" doesn't count) then I would buy a new product. As they have not, I am left with little choice but to build my own solution. Guess some experimentation is in order then.

I have been looking for this for months now...

I would like a explain where I can walk into my room and access my external video game controller thumb drive hooked up to a USB hub session on a close by shelf that is wireless from my laptop. While I lie around on my bed not worrying about getting jumbled up with wires I can access my stuff or pick up a controller or mouse. It would a Bluetooth or USB hub and it would sit near an outlet waiting until I come into immediacy of it with my tablet PC.

Why Can't I find this Item? it seems like one of the first things people would make.

I am look up for something parallel. I think what he means is connecting a device that already draw electrical energy from the wall, to the computer via Bluetooth. For example, an external hard drive that takes 12 volts from the wall. But it also needs to be connected to the computer for data transfer. I am looking for a device that makes the USB port on the hdd turn into a Bluetooth transceiver. This would eliminate yet more wires from my cluttered desktop. By the way, the port is the same as on most Motorola phones, and most mp3 players (scandisk, insignia, and ext.) If anyone knows of such a device, please let us know.

I suppose you may not discover a Bluetooth one, but a lot of what you want to do can be achieve over wifi - is there any cause why a NAS wont fulfill your hard disk needs? And belkin make a USB over LAN sharing device which would work.