OC by @lightrush@lemmy.ca

I needed another corded mouse and this time around I thought of @PKL@mastodon.social and @pronk@mastodon.social instead of Logitech’s shareholders. These guys make open source mice among other open source hardware under the brand Ploopy. You can order one from them, assembled or as a kit, or you could print and build it entirely by yourself.

The mouse itself is pretty great. Coming from a long line of Logitech (MX518/G5/G500/G502), it’s a bit larger than what I’m used to but I think I’m getting accustomed to it.

Here’s another shot of it:

A picture of a computer mouse by Ploopy.

  • refalo@programming.dev
    1·
    14 hours ago

    It used to be an awesome clone of the famous MS Trackball Explorer (now that the patent has expired), but apparently they have completely changed the design and don’t offer it anymore: https://www.trackballmouse.org/ploopy-classic/

    Unfortunately I’m not interested in this new design at all.

    If anyone is still looking for an explorer clone, I highly recommend Sanwa.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
    2·
    19 hours ago

    Anyone has some longer term experience with it? It seems like this was first made available 3 years ago or so?

  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    19 hours ago

    Hoping against hope that they can secure a deal for the lower power version of the sensor used in the ploopy mouse to make a wireless / 2.5GHz version possible 🥺