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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

Resources

• https://github.com/LilyRose2798/beeball

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

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