Today I've fleshed out the measurements of a steel plate that can be embedded in the chassis of either the original Wooting HE60 case, or the one I designed.

Why? Because I thought it would be really fast, and I was wrong.

The Wooting 60HE is an analog keyboard, and it uses magnetic hall-effect switches in each key to register an analog value corresponding to the depth of each key press. This means that if you take a magnet and you rub it under the keyboard, it will register key-presses. This is expected behavior, and not a common occurrence, but I still have an idea with how this can be mitigated!

I did some testing, and about 2mm worth of a magnetically reactive metal is enough to dampen the magnetic field enough to prevent the keys from triggering. This is also a potential opportunity for me to leverage PCBWay!

PCBWay provides not only on-demand circuit-board prototyping, but laser-cutting and CNC as well!

So why not?

Maybe because it's not necessary, and tangential to my higher-priority design goals?

Eh. I'm dumb. Let's do it.

Also, let's add some artificial design constraints!

I want it to be reversible, so people can experiment with different finishes or colors, without needing to buy two plates.

The one above was my first design. Like a good pair of underpants, it goes forwards, backwards, upside down forwards, and upside down backwards!

Then I checked its fit in the original Wooting Chassis, and it wasn't great.

So I went back to the drawing board to make a steel plate that would fit both.

This one flips on the X-axis, and has a nice fit in the original Wooting HE chassis.

My modular chassis was made a little roomier than the Wooting Chassis, less chamfer, and since it's printed and not injection molded, I didn't need as many injection molding access tubes.

Parts of my chassis art aren't covered, which I can compensate for by adjusting the art. All-in-All, not a bad sacrifice if I can make a thing that works for the original chassis as well!