Ploopy’s smallest open-source trackball now includes a button

The Nano 2’s caller fastener comes pre-programmed to trigger a scrolling mode, but its functionality tin beryllium customized. | Image: Ploopy

Canadian-based Ploopy announced the Nano 2 connected Friday. It’s an update to the ultra-compact Nano trackball featuring a caller button, improved performance, and a USB-C larboard that replaces the original’s chunky USB-B port. The institution made a akin upgrade with its Classic 2 trackball mouse earlier this year.

The Nano 2 is inactive designed to connection a “pure cursor experience” and complement a divided keyboard setup oregon a tiny macro pad. But the caller fastener could perchance crook it into a tiny trackball mouse.

The Nano 2’s azygous fastener is pre-programmed to trigger resistance scrolling mode truthful you tin temporarily power the trackball from controlling your cursor to scrolling agelong documents oregon websites. As with Ploopy’s different peripherals, the Nano 2 runs the open-source QMK firmware. You customize the button’s functionality utilizing the VIA web app, including making it relation arsenic a superior rodent click.

Ploopy has upgraded the Nano 2’s trackball show with a caller PAW-3222 sensor that supports a polling complaint of implicit 1,000Hz, but arsenic with each of the company’s hardware, you tin upgrade oregon mod immoderate of the components utilizing the afloat documentation it shares connected its GitHub. Unlike galore of its different products, which are also disposable arsenic discounted DIY kits, Ploopy is lone selling the Nano 2 afloat assembled and tested for $59.99 CAD, oregon astir $43.