e555 — One Two, One Two

Photo by Michael Martine: The Bean in Millennium Park, Chicago, IL, June 2019 Published 25 May 2026 e555 with Andy, Michael and Michael - Ploopy’s The Bean and Lenovo’s TrackPoint, The Guild, The Movie, AI in commencement speeches, AI in podcasts, Virtual Worlds and Virtual OS museums and a whole lot more! Andy, Michael and Michael get things started with an appreciation of Andy’s work to migrate the Games at Work hosting site to a new service in uninterrupted fashion for our […]

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#shownotes for @gamesatwork_biz #podcast e555 with are done and publication set for tomorrow on https://www.gamesatwork.biz together with @michaelrowe01 and @andypiper. Find e555 on @Spotify (with or without a #discoball) @overcastfm @YouTube and all your favorite podcast feeds! Stories and discussion on @ploopy #TheBean and #Lenovo’s #TrackPoint, #TheGuild, #TheMovie, #AI in #commencement speeches, #Woz, #AI in #podcasts, #VirtualWorlds and #VirtualOS #museums and a whole lot more!
Pulling together the #shownotes in #ChapelHill for Monday’s posting of @gamesatwork_biz episode e555 with @andypiper, @michaelrowe01 and yours truly. Stories and discussion on #Ploopy’s #TheBean and #Lenovo’s #TrackPoint, #TheGuild, The Movie, #AI in #commencement speeches, #AI in #podcasts, #VirtualWorlds and #VirtualOS #museums and a whole lot more! Check out earlier episodes, chock full of #AI #metaverse #AR #VR #gamification and so much more on https://www.gamesatwork.biz
the #ploopy #bean is really interessting. the #trackpoint is moving a litte dice, so the hapics are new and different. Really like it for scrolling
My #ploopy #bean arrived. Feels so weird and great at the same time. Different hapics than a #trackpoint, because you can feel the mechanics moving. Feels great!
Bean Pointing Stick [PREORDER] – Ploopy

Ploopy Releases $52 Ploopy Bean Pointing Stick for ThinkPad TrackPoint Lovers

Ploopy, the makers of the DIY-friendly peripherals, like the Ploopy Adept trackball and the Ploopy Trackpad, has just released the Ploopy Bean, a standalone pointing device that mimics the functionality of something like the Lenovo TrackPoint that has become so popular with ThinkPad users. However, ...

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Ploopy’s new mouse makes the ThinkPad’s iconic TrackPoint portable

The Bean is a travel-friendly mouse you don’t need to move around.

The Verge

Everyone deserves to feel the joy of a brand new Trackpoint.

So I replaced the broken adapter on my T480's nub with a new 3D printed replacement.

I tried two designs: one that was Just The Measurements and one with a little more flare. I lost track of which was which moments after I hit "Print" and one design fits and the other doesn't. Not sure which is which.

But my T480's Trackpoint now works like a new one!

(I let the cap before the previous one go a bit too long and the little blue adapter thing Lenovo supplied broke and I've been living - like an animal - with the broken adapter pressed into another cap that had gone a bit too far. I still have 8 spares, I should change them more often. Yes I am aware that there are a bunch of identical models out there available to me, but none had dimensions, so I found it just as quick to measure this up and design my own.)

#tech #thinkpad #trackpoint #3dprinting

Finally, took them long enough!

Ploopy’s new mouse makes the ThinkPad’s iconic TrackPoint portable

https://www.theverge.com/tech/925923/ploopy-bean-open-source-mouse-pointing-stick-qmk

#ThinkPad #TrackPoint #IBM

Ploopy’s new mouse makes the ThinkPad’s iconic TrackPoint portable

The Bean is a travel-friendly mouse you don’t need to move around.

The Verge