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Ghazal
A wireless unibody split with integrated trackball and more: Ghazal by AlSaMoMo.
Published August 5, 2024
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Alaa Saad Mansour aka AlSaMoMo shared his Ghazal, a cool 30-key wireless monoblock keyboard with trackball.
Specs
- 34 keys
- dedicated arrow cluster
- MX/Choc, hotswap
- trackball, using the PWM3610 via VIK module
- wireless via nice!nano
- display (nice!view)
- 5-way switches
The trackball sensor is PMW3610 built with a VIK module which can be found here.
What's below the key cluster are 5 way switches. I used them instead of encoders because they are better for battery life – Alaa.
The caps are DES by Pseudoku.
Resources
- https://github.com/AlaaSaadAbdo/battoota/tree/main/boards/30keys/Ghazal
- https://github.com/sadekbaroudi/vik/tree/master/pcb/pmw3610-xs
- https://github.com/pseudoku/PseudoMakeMeKeyCapProfiles
- https://www.asymplex.xyz/product/des-ergo-caps
Published on Mon 5th Aug 2024. Featured in KBD #171.
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