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Barghoot

Barghoot is an ortho board with integrated trackball – released by AlSaMoMo.

KBD.news
Published May 14, 2023

The ever-prolific Alaa Saad Mansour (AlSaMoMo) has released Barghoot. After many minimal split and monoblock keyboards (Wizza, Batreeq, Zazu), his latest creation is a semi-split ortho keyboard with an integrated trackball.

I never owned an ortho board and was recently inspired by Weteor's Kong and Aki27's Court40 – AlSaMoMo.

Features

• ortholinear layout
• encoders, display, trackball
• Per-key RGB
• Underglow
• Haptic feedback
• Can support a second pointing device through FPC and a breakout board.

Resources

• Berghoot on Github

Published on Sun 14th May 2023. Featured in KBD #122 (source).

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