Nice, I can buy ch582f dev board for 2 dollars. Still very cheap!
Yeah WCH make some really cheap chips. Apart from ch552, there is also a family of BLE chips such as ch571f that is much more efficient than ESP32 (from online sources) and is very cheap. You can get the chip for half a dollar (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005974200193.html) and a development board for less than 3 dollars (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005974200193.html). When I bought it on taobao, it is actually around 1.3 dollars.
The downside is that software support does not exist (yet), so will have to try and make a firmware for it. I haven't yet found time as I was working on manifold things.
I just did it for the wrist rest, as that is the part your wrist will touch regularly. It is too much work to cut many holes if you want to cover the plate, and I don't think it will be much cleaner comparing with bare printed surface. You still need regular cleaning.
The main problem with SLA is the material and size. I don't think SLA can print ABS?
For wrist rest, you can stick a piece of TU leather to cover the printed surface, so it will look nice, be clean and comfortable. Not sure if TPU is sufficiently soft if you want a soft wrist rest, you would probably need something like silicone.
wondering if it is faster for you?
This looks pretty! Wondering where you guys get those fancy choc keycaps as well, I usually go to aliexpress (taobao in hk) and choc keycaps are much more expensive comparing to the normal kind of keycaps. I can usually get 60 normal keycaps for around $10 USD, but the price easily doubles for choc.
a soldering iron at 360 degree celcius
yes this is how I did it!
yeah, they are quite delicate. I wanted to use thicker ones but it is hard to get thick magnet wires. I never tried dropping them so idk, I guess making them less tensioned would help a bit
No need to bend the legs, no need to do wire stripping. I did this in 30 minutes casually... I guess the full halve will take around 1 hour
I am a vim user (and use vim keybinding for web browsing), so I rarely need to use both my mouse and keyboard at the same time.
I think you should probably use a CAD instead of graphics software to design...