Kivipallur

DresanX aka dr3san shared this low-profile ergo cut up impressed by the Keyball44: Kivipallur – with a 25 mm thumb trackball.

I used to every day drive a Keyball44, and was 95% happy. The unhappy 5% of me needed: low profile switches, splay, extra snug thumb cluster place, much less keys. Since trackball keyboards are nonetheless fairly uncommon, nothing matched my wants completely. So I constructed it myself! – DresanX.

“Kivipallur” means one thing like “little stone ball” in Estonian I suppose.

Options

• 38 keys (6×3+2-ish)
• hotswap Choc v1 switches
• 0xCB Helios controllers
• diodeless
• 25mm trackball (PMW3360 breakout)
• QMK

Assets

Revealed on Thu sixth Feb 2025. Featured in KBD #186 (supply).

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Associated

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LeBallz

LeBallz is a Le Chiffre variant by Protieusz – with a 25mm trackball and an elective EC11 encoder.

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Skywatch

Skywatch is a pleasant orthoish monoblock cut up by Özkan Çelik.

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Self-contained trackball

All of the electronics is hidden inside this trackball by Jacek Fedoryński (video, git, weblog put up). (Posted by deekue.)

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TB3S trackball

A small DIY trackball gadget, primarily based round an Elite-Pi controller and a PMW3360 sensor: TB3S by Wimads.

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Kolossus

A sub-40% monoblock cut up with trackball and encoder: Kolossus by Protieusz.

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