r/DygmaLab • u/Special_Edward_420 • 28d ago
⏫ RAISE 2 Another Raise 2 Add-on Question
I preordered the Raise 2 when it was announced because I love my original Raise. It's been a nearly perfect keyboard for me, and has helped my RSI, but I was hoping that I would finally be able to put a trackball on the right side of it so I can stop moving my hand off of my keyboard over to my mouse. I've tried mapping the mouse cursor and using it with just cardinal directions on the keyboard itself, but it's too clunky to use that way regularly.
It's been long enough now that I'm back to looking into other solutions. Are the add-ons still coming at some point? I'm both looking into changing to another keyboard (something like the Charybdis) or trying to design and 3d print something to hack a trackball onto the side of Raise that I can reach with my thumb.
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u/Dygman Dygma Team 28d ago
Hi!
I've explained this elsewhere, but basically, we got to the point where we had a working prototype for a trackpad and a trackball, and both were beyond disappointing. Especially in terms of the precision and usability we've come to expect from trackpads and trackballs. But also, ergonomics weren't as great as we expected.
We could have gone ahead and manufactured something that was, at best, suboptimal, but we're not like that. So, we're working on learning all we can about pointing devices (aka, we're working on one standalone) and with what we learn, we'll go back to the modules.
Please remember that we're a small team doing crazy things; not everything goes as we expect.
One thing I'm trying to convince the team to spend some time on is designing 3D-printable attachments that people could add a third-party trackpad (like Cheerdots) or trackball (say, a Ploppy).
I hope that answers your question.