USB to Arduino to bluetooth I have a piece of equipment that has a USB output, that a flash drive gets inserted into, to collect data as the equipment completes its cycles. I need to make a device that can replace the Flash Drive and take the data from the USB port and either save onto an SD Card, to re transmit when completed, or to transmit live as the cycles complete.
I was thinking about using a UNO, &amp; a USB HOST Shield. to receive the data. Then transmit with a wireless or Bluetooth shield.
I have a "SANDISK WIRELSS FLASH DRIVE" which works as a flashdrive, and then you can connect it to other devices through wireless transmission, problem with it is, the wireless feature disables when plugged into the usb port. If the wireless stayed connected, then this would be exactly what I needed.
Any help or ideas, sample schematics would be welcomed.
There once was once something called an &quot;Infinite USB Memory Drive&quot; that acted as a thumb drive that read and wrote data to a networked share over wifi.
They aren't selling those anymore, but their approach might be what you need - network share to resolve the issue of multi- device connected to same drive.
In your shoes, I'd be looking at a Raspberry Pi Zero W (the one with wireless) instead of an arduino.  More computing options means more ways to solve your problems with the same hardware.