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I can't speak to long-term reliability, but this open source design is designed to be repairable: https://ploopy.co/mouse/
It's cool, do they plan to at some point sell just the internals?
That'd be cool but I'm fine with buying the entire thing as they deserve it, but even more cool would be a cordless option.
Yeah, I think I read on some forum that a wireless model might be in the works. 🤞
Sorry; no idea. I'm not affiliated with them. I found them organically (almost certainly from an open source community here on lemmy) and I just think it's a really cool project and business model worth supporting.
The entire BOM is listed you can just 3d print it and build the internals directly.
The biggest hurdle is getting the PCB but you can just order from pcbway
I built and use my ploopy mouse daily. It's exactly what I wanted.
It's asking a lot to have people print and solder their own mice internals together, even with a parts list. I suppose making the chassis was already a bit of an ask as well, though.