Ortho-Ball
Ortolinear Split Keyboard with a Trackball
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Details
- External ID
- 1397508397
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- Ortho-Ball
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 30, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2154040708177767
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 3, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 3, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and music production software
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- split ortholinear keyboard for trackball users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This is a physical hardware product involving physical PCB layout, trackball sensor hardware integration, and custom mechanical keyboard firmware.
What it would actually take: Building an ortholinear split keyboard with a trackball requires KiCad for custom PCB schematics, component selection (microcontrollers like RP2040/Pro Micro, optical trackball sensors like PMW3360 via SPI), 3D CAD modeling (Fusion 360/Onshape) for ergonomic enclosures and trackball bearing holders, and writing or configuring C-based QMK/ZMK firmware for matrix scanning and pointer device emulation.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 562 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #441 of 563 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 334 days after the earliest competitor.
- translator-keeb · github · 2026-09-19 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- inlay · github · 2026-09-30 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Logitech-Desktop · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- fievel · github · 2026-09-10 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Talisman · hn · 2026-04-25 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Mech keyboard sounds driven by a hidden accelerometer in MacBooks · hn · 2026-03-17 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- okeylitctl · github · 2026-09-26 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Yames · hn · 2026-05-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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