Your Voyager can be a keyboard and a mouse

A modular trackpad or trackball that snaps on magnetically

Straightforward yet flexible

Add mouse control to your Voyager, effortlessly. It’s easy to customize: Choose which side the Navigator module goes on (leftie-friendly!) and how exactly it works, using Oryx, our graphical configurator.

When mounted on your Voyager, the Navigator looks like it was made for it — because it was.

a desktop image showing Oryx configuring a voyager

Keep your hands on
the keyboard

Stay focused and reduce repetitive arm movement by having your mouse integrated with your keyboard; no more fumbling for a separate mouse. The keyboard handles mouse clicks and scrolling exactly how you tell it to. Set it up for comfort.

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Getting started

The Core

Mouse control modules that connect to your Voyager, Moonlander, and many other QMK powered keyboards.

Navigator Trackball

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Navigator Trackpad

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For daily productivity

The Navigator is a fully-featured, but compact, mouse attachment.

If you are a gamer, illustrator, or 3D designer, you may want to keep a dedicated mouse around for precise spatial work.

If much of what you do is web browsing, email, spreadsheets, coding, and other text-heavy work, the Navigator can become your one and only pointing device.

The Shell

The holding shell for the Trackball or Trackpad. Get the official shell, or print your own.

Injection molded ABS

Perfectly matches your Voyager’s color and surface finish.

Built-in cable management

Thoughtfully designed space to tuck away your cables.

Close up shot of the backside of the navigator, showing two cables plugging into it neatly positioned side by side and covered

Left or right side (or both)

There are too many pointing devices on the market that are available only for right-handed users. We know that only a fraction of our users will go for the left-handed version, but it was still important for us to invest in it.

We ❤ you, lefties!

Attaches magnetically

Even when the Voyager is hovering.

The Shell uses custom-made rare-earth magnets to ensure it stays in place even at extreme angles and while hovering in the air.

The Voyager’s orientation pins make sure the shell snaps in just right, every time.

The Shell is compatible with both the Trackball and the Trackpad. You can change between them at any time.

Make your own

The Navigator is compatible with any QMK keyboard that supports I2C. We spent a lot of time and work making it, but it’s not just for ZSA boards. Download the design specs bundle below and use it to create your own shell for any keyboard. Feel free to share it with us.

For the Moonlander and ErgoDox EZ (ST), you can configure the Navigator in Oryx, but there won’t be an official ABS-molded shell for the Moonlander or ErgoDox EZ. For this, see our DIY 3D-printed shells below.

Send us your creations!

Close up of the Navigator Trackball with the custom shell

Try the printable thumb shell

If you prefer a thumb Trackball, this official ZSA printable lets you move the Navigator to your thumb while giving your board some built-in tenting. It includes a “passive” part for the side without the Trackball, so both halves of the board have the same tenting angle.

It’s easy to install a magnet onto the print, but you can also use it as-is.

Print your own

Attach the Navigator to your Moonlander

The Navigator is fully compatible with the Moonlander using a core and 3D-printed shell. ZSA offers official printable shells for mounting the Navigator at your thumb, the side of the board, or sandwiched between the Moonlander and the Platform for extra tenting.

Moonlander Shells

A custom 3d printed shell for the navigator, placed in between the two splits of a Moonlander keyboard.

Design files

This design bundle contains STLs for the Trackball core, as well as both sides of the shell, making it easy to print your own shells. It also contains fully editable Parasolid x_b files for the shell which you can use to make any shell shape you’d like. Yay for moddable hardware!

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The Firmware

What is it like to use?

Easy to start

Setting up the Navigator in Oryx takes
exactly three clicks.

Easy to customize

Choose where your mouse buttons go. When setting up a Navigator Trackball, a mouse layer is automatically created for you. But just like everything else, this is customizable. Simply move your mouse keys to wherever suits you.

The Navigator Trackpad supports two-finger gestures out of the box and is controlled by your operating system settings, so its setup in Oryx only takes seconds. Just add the Trackpad and go. If you decide you want a mouse layer, you can always add one later.

Auto-Mouse Layer

You can set things up so that a Mouse Control layer activates as soon as you move the cursor. When using the Trackball, this puts mouse buttons right under your fingers, exactly where you need them. When using the Trackpad, you can use a Mouse layer or two-finger gestures. Magic!

FAQs

The Navigator Trackball, in the carrying case, weighs 175g. Without the case (just the shell, core, Trackball, and cables), it weighs 105g.

The Navigator Trackpad, in the carrying case, weighs 145g. Without the case (just the shell, core, Trackpad, and cables), it weighs 75g.

The shell is roughly 13cm in length, 7cm in width, and 4.8cm in depth (with the Trackball in the core).

The carrying case is 15cm in length, 9cm in width, and 6cm in height.

For the Trackball, no. It will fall out. It just sits loose in its socket for ease of movement and cleaning. You can safely tilt it up to 45 degrees, or even 60 degrees if you’re a gentle typist, but at the end of the day, it is a ball in a cup. See the product overview video above for a visual of how far you can tent — it does tent quite a bit, just not vertically.

The Trackpad, obviously, can be tented vertically, as well as upside down if you’re using it in an actual space station.

The Navigator is designed to work with the Voyager. It can work with the Moonlander and ErgoDox EZ ST by enabling support for it in your layout and using a custom shell to hold it. The Navigator does not work with the Planck EZ or older ErgoDox EZs made before September 1st, 2024 (Teensy-based ErgoDox EZs) in Oryx. If you’re using QMK, the Navigator can work with any keyboard that supports I2C communication and uses an ST-based processor. You’ll just need to set up the code.

It does, but Oryx will not generate an auto-mouse layer when you set up a Trackpad like it does when you set up a Trackball. In our testing, we realized most Trackpad users won’t need a mouse layer. All of the core mouse actions (left and right clicks and scrolling) can be handled with gestures right on the Trackpad. Dragging can be done with a quick tap then hold, and you can continue dragging or selecting by quickly lifting your finger and bringing it back down on the opposite side of the Trackpad surface (called re-grip), just like using the Trackball.

For any QMK keyboard

To create the Navigator we had to develop an entirely new pointing device driver in QMK — and of course, we are contributing this driver back to QMK in full for anyone to modify and use for any purpose.

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