Why? My friend needed a way to use his Bluetooth mouse and keyboard on a PC with Bluetooth disabled due to policy restrictions. This tool acts as a bridge, relaying Bluetooth input over USB. It also lets you use Bluetooth peripherals with older devices that only support USB input.
Tech: Written in Go, optimized for Raspberry Pi Zero W.
I love HN’s community and often lurk here—I’m hoping this project is useful or at least sparks some interesting discussions. Feedback and contributions are welcome!
Protip: If their company's IT section is like the one at my old company, they are quite unlikely to like this solution, either.
But it's very clever. Kudos.
Well.
Other departments ask for equipment, but only hear no back. Management product like Monday? No. Dedicated solution for jobs they don't understand? Hell no!
It's tough to be part of this. I know security is hard. Budget limit stuff. But we can, and should do better.
My company's IT department is Windows clickops people who hire other Windows clickops people. When something goes wrong that requires the command line, they spend five figures on a consultant to fix it. Ditto for the few dozen Linux machines in the company.
Some of our departments, including mine, run Macs. I can't count the number of times I've had someone from IT tell me "OK, now click 'Start'…" or whatever the Windows convention is these days.
All they'd have to do is hire one guy who knows the command line, and one guy who knows how to support Macs. There must be a hundred people in the IT department, but they keep hiring the same type of people over and over.
I wish it was unique to my company, but there was an identical situation where I worked a few years ago.