I’m working on a project, to create an air mouse for people with repetitive strain injury (since I have it as well). I’m flexible with the hardware required. The plan is to use data from an IMU for movement. I’m currently learning how to work with the sensor.
I have also been researching how to eventually convert the sensor data to mouse movements. I understand that you can do this over Bluetooth (Bluetooth HID, or HID over GATT). However, this is where I reach my limits.
I was hoping to find a library, which can do this for me (similar to the mouse.h library) as it feels like it would take me months learning about the Bluetooth standards to try to implement it myself.
The options I found in my research:
- Adafruit boards only library so ties you to their ecosystem
- mbedOS library, code seems different then the arduino sketches I’ve seen so far and is difficult to understand
- esp32 based library, would need to learn how to use that processor and not sure if supported properly in arduino IDE)
- Arduinoble.h library, would you need to create the mouse HID profile from the ground up)
Since many of you are much more experienced than me, I would be grateful for any guidance on how to proceed. Would you show a preference for any of the options above? Or should I be attempting to do things differently, e.g. without a mouse library (but where would I start)?
PS. In case it’s useful, I have basic familiarity with C++ (e.g. I understand classes, pointers, etc.), but I don’t have a programming background. I have done a few simple arduino projects and most of the examples on the official website.
