Explore Ploopy’s Customizable 3D-Printed Trackpad

Friday, 18 October 2024, 07:47

Ploopy’s customizable 3D-printed trackpad elevates tech peripherals with open-source features. This seven-inch trackpad offers multi-finger gestures and palm rejection. Powered by Raspberry Pi, it provides flexibility like never before, catering to tech aficionados eager for mod-friendly solutions.
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Explore Ploopy’s Customizable 3D-Printed Trackpad

Discover Ploopy’s Innovative Trackpad

Ploopy is expanding its collection of mod-friendly peripherals with a new seven-inch trackpad that supports multi-finger gestures and features like palm rejection. Like Ploopy’s mouse and trackballs, its new trackpad runs on the QMK open-source firmware, further expanding how its functionality can be customized.

Technical Specifications

The trackpad is powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2040, while finger tracking is handled by a Microchip ATMXT1066TD processor which can all be found on a single mainboard that’s easy to swap into another case. Although Ploopy says the included 3D-printed case has a fantastic surface finish and is great to use all day, you can download the case’s open-source design files to print it using a different material or change its design entirely.

Compatibility and Options

Ploopy’s trackpad is slightly larger than Apple’s Magic Trackpad, but its actual tracking area is a bit smaller, measuring over six inches. That’s still enough room to accommodate gestures using up to five fingers, although the trackpad only supports Windows and Linux right now. The trackpad does rely on a USB cable connection to a PC at all times. Wireless capabilities aren’t included, and while that’s potentially a modification you could undertake, it could be a complicated upgrade, given QMK’s limited support for Bluetooth hardware.

Pricing and Availability

The Ploopy trackpad is available now in two different options. You can preorder one that’s fully assembled and ready to go out of the box in black or gray for around $94 ($129.99 Canadian) or as a DIY kit that will require tools like a screwdriver, tweezers, and pliers to assemble for around $73 ($99.99 Canadian). The expected delivery timeline for both options is currently “within 20 weeks of the order date.”


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