Rotatrix – Trackball mod capturing full 3-axis rotation for 3D control

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Hi HN - I've been on creative sabbatical building hardware and software projects, and this is one of them.Rotatrix is a hardware mod of the Kensington SlimBlade Pro trackball that reads out full 3-axis ball rotation (XY plus twist) and maps it to continuous 3D control. The original device only used twist for discrete scroll gestures, which is a whole degree of freedom that can be put to more use.For 3D control, I've found the most natural mapping is for the ball top to map to the object front, so normal trackball directions (up/down, left/right) become pitch and yaw, matching how rotation works with 2D “click and drag”, while twist rolls the object on screen. It feels natural for translation

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