Two-ball trackball An open-source, fully programmable two-ball, three-button USB trackball by jfedor2.
KBD.news Published November 22, 2021
Not a keyboard, but another nice companion.
The GitHub repository linked below contains design files and code that can be used to make a fully programmable two-ball, three-button USB trackball:
https://github.com/jfedor2/two-ball-trackball
Published on Mon 22nd Nov 2021. Featured in KBD #53 (source ).
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