rf transmitter over usb

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Hey, I'm sort of new at this so please bear with me. Basically, I have one of these: RF Link Transmitter - 315MHz - WRL-10535 - SparkFun Electronics and it's all fine and dandy controlling it with an arduino. But, I'd like to control it with USB.

Would someone be so kind as to point me to some resource(s) that would teach me about this? I've got no problem writing a USB driver for it, but I'm having a hard time understanding how USB works necessarily, and an even harder time finding literature on the matter.

I suppose the alternative would be to use a micro-controller that interfaces with USB to drive the transmitter.

I sincerely appreciate any help that will be provided.

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mikhailvs:
I suppose the alternative would be to use a micro-controller that interfaces with USB to drive the transmitter.

Something like an Arduino would be good for that.

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Yes, I realize that but is there a direct way to do it without a micro-controller? Sorry if this is a stupid question.

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That transmitter provides no error detection or correction. You could hook a USB-to-Serial cable to it and transmit a stream of characters but you would have problems with interference and noise.

Since that is only a transmitter you would need a receiver at the other end. ANd, as the description says, if you want two-way communication you would need another transmitter/receiver pair on another frequency band for the return signal.

What was it you hoped to accomplish?