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Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It all started with Ploopy. “What a goofy name for a trackball,” I thought to myself as I tweeted. “Ploopy,” ...

Ceci n’est pas une keyboard, sure. But it’s keyboard-adjacent, and how. [Joshua Bemenderfer]’s wrists are tired of moving off the keyboard in order to mouse, and he decided to create a trackball that ...

Finally, we get to the fun part. Fun for some, anyway, although if you’re not the type who gets a perverse glee from designing the perfect arcade control setup, this project just might not be for you.