Category: Announcements

Today, we’re releasing a brand new, open-source mouse design: the Bean, which is a pointing stick mouse (also called a nub mouse). Nub mice are commonly found in laptops in the center of the keyboard. The Bean takes that concept and pushes it farther than anybody’s ever pushed it. And kits are available for preorder… Continue reading The Bean is here!

What’s New? The Adept’s getting a fresh new look! For a limited time while our supplies last, we’re offering new colours for the Adept. For trackballs, we’ve got a new bright teal ball. This one has the translucent swirl characteristic of our other trackballs. We’re also introducing a new flat opaque marble ball. No shiny… Continue reading New Colours Available for a Limited Time!

The Nano 2 is the new and improved next generation of the Ploopy Nano trackball. It’s got an improved sensor and a new fully-configurable button. Simple and effective, it does exactly what you need it to. Drop it easily into your setup wherever you want. The Nano 2 is available now for even less than… Continue reading The Nano 2 is here!

TLDR: We’re resuming shipping to the US as usual, and no tariffs will be assessed. It’s been just over a month since we were forced to suspend shipping to the US, and we’ve been hard at work finding a solution in the time since. We’re happy to announce that we’ll be resuming shipping to the… Continue reading We’re Resuming US Shipping!

TLDR: Ploopy is suspending US shipping services for the foreseeable future. You are free to put in an order if you like, but we don’t know when it will ship, and you will likely have to pay a 35% tariff when your parcel is delivered. Customers with outstanding orders may request a full refund. We… Continue reading Tariffs and US Shipping Suspension

We just released some firmware that enables high-resolution scrolling for the Adept. Anybody using an Adept with their Windows or Linux machine can now have pixel-by-pixel scrolling precision, and all you need to do is upload the new firmware, which takes about ten seconds! Here’s a bit more info. We recently released the Knob, which… Continue reading High-resolution scrolling for the Adept

The Knob is a stand-alone dial that can be programmed to do anything you want, and it’s available starting today for $49CAD! A high-performance sensor The sensor that’s inside the Ploopy Knob is the formidable AS5600, a magnetic sensor with 12-bits of position resolution. It’s capable of detecting rotational changes small than 1/10th of a… Continue reading The Knob is here!

The Classic 2 is a brand new revision of the original Classic, and kits are available today starting at $144CAD! The Classic 2 is just like the original in every way that matters. It’s also a major upgrade for the few things that needed tweaking. USB-C connector That’s right, the Classic 2 has a USB-C… Continue reading The Classic 2 is here!

The way that my partner and I run Ploopy is sometimes a bit hard to explain. As a result, we usually don’t bother trying. It requires a lot of words. However, the questions keep piling up. Neither of us are answering them, so the pile keeps getting bigger. This blog will be a place of… Continue reading A blog?