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edit: first of all: I LOVE THIS THING and can't wait to use it! Some very clever design ideas in the 3D printed parts. Very nice work!

Unfortunately the DIY 3D print files have no "PLOOPY" text and, no space for the wooden veneer accent piece.
(I thought this might have been deliberate for the print-it-yourself versions, but then the kit arrived with the veneer piece included..?)

PCB does not fit into the space allowed (this could be my printer overextruding!)

I'm trying to follow the "QMK Firmware Programming" page on the wiki, but when I run:
qmk compile -kb ploopyco/madromys/rev1_001 -km via

it returns the following:
qmk.exe compile: error: argument -kb/--keyboard: invalid keyboard_folder value: 'ploopyco/madromys/rev1_001'

I would like to create a parameterized version of the adept. Input ball size, and the whole thing scales to fit the ball. Of course some things will need to remain constantly sized such as the the slots for the rollers, the hole for the sensor, the hole for the usb-c port, holes for the screws, and the space for the computer chip. In addition the buttons will have to extend further to reach the static location of the buttons on the computer chip.

My reasoning is that I would like to have to adept but with a larger ball.

Anyway, I am totally new to 3d printing design. I was successfully able to separate the 3 parts (top, bottom, and what I'm calling the cradle (the part with the hole for the sensor)). It seems like the parts are rather blob-like as in there is no properties on them to change (I'm using free cad). From my reading online, I would need the original project files to do this kind of work (as opposed to the STL files).

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Adept main Readme.md missing wiki link for " Check out the Wiki for instructions on how to load new firmware onto your device. (It's super easy!)"

Happy to update the readme.md with contribution instructions if I can get that link.

I have an Adept Trackball that I ordered from Ploopy prebuilt. I have used VIA to configure it, but otherwise it has the stock firmware. I tried flashing it with the .uf2 files in firmwares/drag_scroll_toggle and it seems that they all use click and hold for scrolling still. I'm able to put the device in bootloader mode and after pasting in the uf2 file it reboots successfully. I also tried one of the files in firmwares/drag_scroll_click_and_hold and it causes the same behavior.

I love this project. I've wanted to make my own trackball for a long time. I originally wanted to make one with an undrilled bowling ball, but I've never been able to source a ball without some kind of manufacturers logo engraved in it. I have an old logitech trackball that I very gently nicked the ball by dropping it once, and I know how much even a tiny imperfection in the ball makes the experience unplesant.

But this seems quite reasonable (unlike my idea). But, I'm in the USA and snooker isn't really a game here. We have lots of billiards supplies, but the balls are 2.25". Any suggestions on how I could go about adapting this design to accomodate the larger size of ball? Naively, I could scale it up by 9/7 and try to adapt the remaining parts to fit, but that seems problematic as all the bearings, screws, switch mounts, etc. will not take kindly to that.

Thank you for everything!

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