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Rock On v3
Rock On v3 by Sadek Baroudi. With case STLs.
Published October 29, 2022
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Sadek Baroudi (fingerpunch.xyz) keeps tweaking his Rock On design – compare it to this one from earlier this year. V3 now supports a center trackball or trackpad.
Features
- Elite-C footprint (but no AVR supported)
- Trackball support (PMW3360)
- Cirque trackpad support
- Per key RGB (SK6812 mini-e)
- MX and Choc v1 hotswap
- 3 keys at the bottom for mouse clicks
- Support for up to 3 rotary encoders, one under each palm, and one in the center of the 3 bottom keys
- Wireless support (but you lose support for the center rotary encoder)
- QMK and ZMK firmware
Case STLs
While the project isn't open source, the case STLs are available at:
https://github.com/sadekbaroudi/fingerpunch/tree/master/keyboards/rock-on/cases/stl/v3
Published on Sat 29th Oct 2022. Featured in KBD #100 (source).
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