Mousepound64 〈720p 2024〉

It is not a keyboard with a mouse attached. It is a pound —a term borrowed from animal husbandry, referring to a place where lost things are kept. The MP64 is where your cursor goes to be found again.

Building a Mousepound64 is not a purchase; it is a penance. You cannot buy one assembled. Vexel, now rumored to be living off-grid in the Oregon woods, only sells PCBs and acrylic cases via a Telegram group. The queue is 18 months long. mousepound64

The device was first conceptualized in 2021 by an exiled industrial designer known only as "Vexel." Tired of switching between a Planck keyboard and a Logitech MX Master 3, Vexel did something unhinged: he cut a $300 keyboard in half with a bandsaw, routed out the PCB, and hot-glued the guts of a trackball into the cavity. It is not a keyboard with a mouse attached

Mousepound64 is not for everyone. In fact, it is not for almost anyone. It is for the hyper-specialist, the workflow fetishist, the person who looks at a hammer and asks, "Why does the handle have to be straight?" Building a Mousepound64 is not a purchase; it is a penance