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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 n

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/ 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.

lelanthran 5y ago
> 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.
- corobo 5y ago
  Why do nerds always give instructions as questions haha
  - lelanthran 5y ago
    > Why do nerds always give instructions as questions haha Why don't you look it up and tell us? :-)
    - corobo 5y ago
      Closest I got was: not being introduced to (or not inspired by) xkcd's ten thousand https://xkcd.com/1053/ 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
  - jerrre 5y ago
    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"
    - corobo 5y ago
      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
      - lelanthran 5y ago
        > 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 :-)

lelanthran 5y ago

> 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.

corobo 5y ago
Why do nerds always give instructions as questions haha
- lelanthran 5y ago
  > Why do nerds always give instructions as questions haha Why don't you look it up and tell us? :-)
  - corobo 5y ago
    Closest I got was: not being introduced to (or not inspired by) xkcd's ten thousand https://xkcd.com/1053/ 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
- jerrre 5y ago
  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"
  - corobo 5y ago
    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
    - lelanthran 5y ago
      > 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 :-)