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keyball is split keyboard has 100% track ball

keyball

Keyball is split keyboard has 100% track ball

Firmware build guide

Keyball46 have separate firmwares for each of PCBs w/ trackball and w/o trackball. You can build those with this commands in root of QMK firmware source tree.

$ make keyball/rev1/ball:via
$ make keyball/rev1/noball:via

You will get two files:

  • keyball_rev1_ball_via.hex - Trackball PCB firmware with VIA support.
  • keyball_rev1_noball_via.hex - No trackball PCB firmware with VIA support.

Write each firmwares to correct PCB's Pro Micro.

In generally, you can build fimwares with this command.

$ make keyball/rev1/ball:{YOUR_FAVORITE_KEYMAP}
$ make keyball/rev1/noball:{YOUR_FAVORITE_KEYMAP}

Keyamaps

Keyball46 provides some keymaps as default:

  • via - VIA support, trackball is on right side
  • via_Left - VIA support, trackball is on left side
  • test - Test for building/soldering Keyball46 (w/ right trackball)
  • default - Template for customized keymap (w/ right trackball)

Prerequirements to build firmware

  1. Checkout QMK firmware source codes

  2. Setup QMK correctly (See also)

  3. Copy ./qmk_firmware/keyboards/keyball/ directory in this repository to QMK firmware's dir as {QMK_FIRMWARE_ROOT}/keyboards/keyball.

  4. Build Keyball46 firmwares (See above section)

    $ make keyball/rev1/ball:via
    $ make keyball/rev1/noball:via