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.
We had all kinds of scary tech, like custom-compiled metrics software from Intel.
They insisted that all of our machines run their malwa- er, security software.
It would totally screw up our measurements.