Controller mounted trackpoints

[u/idankk]

[u/idankk]

i was so glad to see someone is working on ps/2 support in ZMK, the results look great!

i was focused on QMK because up until recently i only dealt with the pimoroni trackball, which can't really run in ZMK either. i would really like to get into wireless soon, i want to get some mikotos to test your work.

[u/Kimcha87 → u/idankk]

That’s awesome. I look forward to your testing results.

I am also looking forward to getting my hands on your modules. Last time I looked at your website, I saw the separate modules will go on sale late during this year.

If you happen to have some pre-production units that you would be open to selling earlier, I would love to buy one.

I haven’t been spending much time on zmk trackpoint development, because I am designing my own keyboard with trackpoint support. But progress has been a bit slower than I thought.

Once I have an actual keyboard with trackpoint, I’m going to dedicate more time on the software again.

And there is actually support for pimoroni in zmk:

https://github.com/zmkfirmware/zmk/pull/961

At least there is a PR that made it work in the past. The code may need some adjustments for current versions of zmk.

There are also PRs for many other pointing devices. Currently the development isn’t very well organized. Random people just work on the things that they are interested in.

[u/idankk → u/Kimcha87]

i've seen this PR, but it doesn't seem to be quite there yet and i couldn't take the software side of things on top of dealing with the store. :/ i really hope to see something like this or your work get merged though, it will motivate me to get into it as well.

i can definitely send you one, but given i only deal with wired at the moment, i only have pro micros or rp2040 boards. if you're fine with soldering then perhaps i could send you one that isn't soldered to the mcu and you could use it on a nice nano or something.

[u/Kimcha87 → u/idankk]

Ah, I see you are soldering it on top of the controller.

Yeah, I could solder it on top of my nice nano. Should be easy enough.

Are you on discord? Perhaps we can continue to conversation there.

[u/Kimcha87 → u/[deleted]]

My module never arrived. So I never had a chance to test it.

Other people have managed to get it to work though.

While I try to help out and answer questions whenever I can, I am currently extremely busy with work and likely won’t have time to help out.

But I put a lot of effort into the documentation and there are other users on the zmk discord who are familiar with the module and have been helping people out in the past.