The chassis with its two flush inlay marks as separate bodies, the touch-board carrier, the deck, the axle pins, the clear scroll ring, two electrode sheets, the face plate with its eight light plugs, and the click-posture base. Print-ready 3MF with orientation and material baked in, and no supports anywhere.
Click the bar and it comes apart. Every step flies its parts back in, highlights what you are working on, moves the camera to where you need to look, and draws the looms in their real order. The front wall cuts away when you need to see inside, and your progress is saved.
A Bluetooth microcontroller module, an optical trackball sensor, an eight-channel touch controller, two haptic drivers with two coin actuators, two magnetic latch sensors, fourteen amber LEDs, three miniature bearings, a Ø25 mm ball, a protected lithium-polymer cell and a bag of small magnets. Nothing exotic, on purpose. The cut list and the pin map are included.
Two builds ready to flash, the bench test build and the shipping build, plus the shield config, the keymap and the workflow that rebuilds them on GitHub. It carries the Handshake, two haptic channels and five hosts, and anything can be remapped without an account or a cloud.
Print the template at 100 %, cut the eight electrodes and lay the copper. Every diagram is generated from the same code as the parts, so it cannot drift from them.
Hardware revisions, firmware releases and guide updates land in your portal as they ship. The files are licensed for personal use, and each one is generated for your order and carries your order number.
The BIY Portal is the same geometry the parts are printed from, on a bench, in your browser. It knows where every board, magnet, LED and wire goes because it was generated from the code that put them there.
The wiring goes in spine first: both looms are soldered to the controller on the bench and laid into the bar in one move, and then each device joins a loom end at its own spot, so nobody has to solder inside the bar with a board in the way. The portal shows that step by step with the diagrams a click away.
Print the axle pins first, a five-minute print that proves your line width and elephant-foot settings before you commit a chassis. Then the nine prints, then the build in this order.
| file | material | on the bed |
|---|---|---|
orb2_01_chassis.3mf | PETG-CF · three bodies, load as one object with parts | desk face down |
orb2_02_cap-carrier.3mf | PETG-CF | flat |
orb2_03_deck.3mf | PETG-CF | flat |
orb2_04_axle-pins.3mf | PETG-CF · ×4, one spare | standing, brim on |
orb2_05_scroll-ring.3mf | clear PETG | top face down on a smooth plate |
orb2_06_sheet-W.3mf · orb2_07_sheet-E.3mf | PETG-CF | flat, pocket side up |
orb2_08_face-plate.3mf | PETG-CF + eight clear plugs | face up, ironing on |
orb2_09_posture-base.3mf | ASA or PETG-CF | flat |
Plus orbit_sense.uf2 · orbit_sense_testmode.uf2 · firmware.zip (source) · bom.csv · copper_template_1to1.pdf · a ball garage and a dongle case in accessories/ · README · license · manifest with a checksum for every file.
You will need a printer that handles carbon-fibre PETG and clear PETG, a soldering iron you are comfortable with, thirty-gauge wire, and patience for the copper work. Two of the boards in the list come in more than one revision, and the bill of materials says which one fits. The touch stack needs a per-unit tune, which the Handshake does for you on first boot.
The O.R.B. 2 files are the production set, gated by 89 automated geometry checks. The firmware is open source and ships compiled, as a bench test build that walks every LED, sweeps both haptic channels and dumps the touch counts, and as the shipping build, with the source and the workflow that rebuilds it. It has not yet been proven on a finished O.R.B. 2, and every release lands in your portal. Haptics, glow and the posture base are designed and gated but not yet bench-verified on every unit, and the battery runtime is not published until it has been measured. The images on this site are renders of the production geometry until the first units are photographed.
If that sounds like your kind of weekend, this is a complete set of files for a pointing device, with a guide that shows every step in 3D.
Checkout is through Stripe. Your portal link, with the models, the BOM, the template, the firmware and the guided build, is on screen the moment you pay and in your inbox a minute later.
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