Keyboard Builders' Digest / Projects

Beeball

Lily Rose is working on a cute standalone trackball: the beeball.

KBD.news
Published September 16, 2022

Lily's beeball is a PCB combining a Seeeduino XIAO, PMW3360, and Kailh Choc switches for use as a trackball mouse.

The project was shared by @Papapishu:

I just like that it was printed to match the keyboard and controller pic.twitter.com/40hzaTO2mE

— Mr. Highlight Reel (Official) (@Papapishu) September 14, 2022

Published on Fri 16th Sep 2022. Featured in KBD #95.

Related

Pimoroni trackball support in ZMK

Coded, built and tested by cdc_mkb on a Zephirum, Pimoroni PIM447 trackball is now supported in ZMK firmware.

Chordie updated

The chording keyboard you shouldn't be scared of, Chordie by kbjunky, has been updated.

Grabbity Gloves

Introducing the Grabbity Gloves by loopsbellart.

OpenOT

Skribbles4420 shared the files of his OpenOT, a 5x11 ortholinear keyboard with an integrated trackball.

UniChunky

The UniChunky by u/tenstaana is basically two Chunkys fused together.

Charybdis Nano

Quentin's Charybdis family is extending with the Nano – with open-source case files.