This is the story of one person’s desire to have the venerable trackpoint in their new keyboard. [Klapse] loves a Lenovo old-style non-chicklet keyboard, so, despite the cost, five were ordered.

T here have been design derivations in the recent past, but most of Lenovo’s ThinkPads hew pretty close to their IBM-era ...

He got the Trackpoint ... liberated keyboard up, but [Frank] has done his part by designing a few PCBs which handle routing the appropriate connections to the Teensy LC or 3.2 microcontroller.

Lenovo’s chief design officer David Hill described the TrackPoint as a way for a user to access a pointing device without the need for the user’s hands to leave the keyboard’s home row.

is that in addition to a touchpad below the keyboard, ThinkPads feature Lenovo’s TrackPoint system with a small pointing stick in the center of the keyboard. But leaked pictures of a new Lenovo ...