Clean Silicone Covered Keyboard Wrist Rest by rtrski

Last crawled date: 3 years, 4 months ago

Yet another computer wrist rest. Approx 17inch length, suitable for full length keyboards with 10-key, although you could possibly scale the parts along the assembly long axis after rotation to use with a TKL. See print MISC notes for plating rotation angles.
WHY another wrist rest design?
I hate that 95% of the commercial ones on the market are either fabric-covered gel or memory foam, or fake PU leather that gets grungy and doesn't last without taking a deformation. But solid plastic, wood, or metal ones also are too firm and don't provide the pressure relief I want. I thought a hollow shell, wrapped with a sheet of Silicone, would provide just enough pressure relief/flex, be easily cleanable (isopropyl alcohol should wipe Silicone pretty clean without much effort), and look and feel nice.
This particular height was designed to mate up to my HyperX Alloy Origins in a 'flat' (feet retracted) configuration, but would probably fit other keyboard fairly well. The inset in the main body parts vs. the endcaps is for the thickness of the Silicone. Search for things like Silicone placemat or pastry surface or whatnot at your big internet retailer of choice. I'll be going with white to totally test out the cleanability plus for looks with the black keyboard body with white/transparent 'pudding' keycaps.
Broken into parts to glue together and fit typical 150mm build size limits. There are 9 pieces total. 2 endcaps (mirrored), 3 main length parts each for upper and lower shell (labeled e.g. UL, UM, UR or LB, MB, RB), and a connector piece for which you need two total. There are also pre-designed SUPPORTED versions of the 'upper' shell parts because at least on my printer (Snapmaker 2.0 A250) these tended to string on the outside curvature, and that needs to be nicely smooth for the covering to take a good shape.
There's some anti-warp ribs along the outer edges, and ribs to prevent the connectors pushing in too far. The connectors should already be shrunken 0.2mm from the shell parts for easier insertion I believe.
As of this typing I have not completed my printing and applied my coating yet so no finished pictures - consider this "IN WORK" at the moment.