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Tesla is still in business.

I'd be very curious to hear more about how you would go about making a wood enclosure, because I thought the same thing, but I do not have any woodworking skills. I have gotten used to the 3D-printed texture but I wouldn't mind having a nice wooden enclosure instead.

I have been very impressed by Keyboardio's use of wood, for example: https://shop.keyboard.io/ I got an Atreus with a wooden palmrest for my partner, who loves it and uses it daily. I just haven't found an open hardware mouse with similar build quality yet.

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> I'd be very curious to hear more about how you would go about making a wood enclosure, because I thought the same thing

Mill two halves, then screw them together with the electronics inside?

File/Sand/Plane down a block for the top, hollow out the interior and close off the hollow with a thin balsa sheet?

The way I made propellers - with a craft knife, cut the wafer thin sheets sold by model airplane stores with successive concentric overlapping ovals for each 1mm height of the enclosure. Glue them all together and sand it down smooth.

Why do nerds always give instructions as questions haha

> Why do nerds always give instructions as questions haha

Why don't you look it up and tell us?

:-)

Closest I got was: not being introduced to (or not inspired by) xkcd's ten thousand https://xkcd.com/1053/

Ever since I read that one I've loved being able to introduce people to things rather than doing the question mark "you should know this" sort of reply

It was a wild search tangent admittedly

Assuming this question is in good faith:

I think* it has to do with not wanting to say something as 100% truth without knowing it's 100% true. Which can be interpreted as weakness/insecurity among more business/marketing minded folks.

*see my own usage of "I think"

It was in good faith but I can see how it comes across as snarky, that's bad wording on my part

I can see how that fits, nice one

> It was in good faith but I can see how it comes across as snarky, that's bad wording on my part

I didn't take it as snarky[1], so I wouldn't worry about that if I were you.

[1] I even replied in kind, with a question :-)

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