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Kivipallur

Kivipallur is an ergo split keyboard with a 25 mm thumb trackball – designed by dr3san.

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Published February 6, 2025
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DresanX aka dr3san shared this low-profile ergo split inspired by the Keyball44: Kivipallur – with a 25 mm thumb trackball.

I used to daily drive a Keyball44, and was 95% satisfied. The unsatisfied 5% of me wanted: low profile switches, splay, more comfortable thumb cluster position, less keys. Since trackball keyboards are still quite rare, nothing matched my needs perfectly. So I built it myself! – DresanX.

"Kivipallur" means something like "little stone ball" in Estonian I guess.

Features

  • 38 keys (6x3+2-ish)
  • hotswap Choc v1 switches
  • 0xCB Helios controllers
  • diodeless
  • 25mm trackball (PMW3360 breakout)
  • QMK

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Published on Thu 6th Feb 2025. Featured in KBD #186 (source).

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