Adding/Including Memories
I lost my dad last year (2023) and have been finding ways to include keepsakes/memories in my workstation. I've dabbled here and there with doing small woodworking projects and attempted a wrist rest from a piece of oak I picked up with him from my great uncles wood shop. I milled it to fit a 60% keyboard as I hadn't decided what keyboard I would be using it on and thought that's where most of my wrist would be in contact even typing on a full keyboard. I gave it a torched/burn appearance as I really was lost in what to do. I found an old shell casing from going hunting with my dad in my hunting pack and decided to imbed it into the end of the wrist rest so it would just have a little difference and a small story behind it as well. I have other things around my workstation from family and friends, but it just feels a little more special having worked on it and adding something small that has a memory for me to it. (Purple was my grandmothers favorite color and I have kinda now...
Apr 8, 2024
If you do a lot of work with electronics and this thing is AMAZING. The build quality of the tool itself is high, and it has worked consistently with not a single bug or issue in the ~1 year I've owned it. It makes building drones a breeze, and lowers overall build fatigue by a lot.
PROS: High build quality, solid in the hand Long battery life. Extremely intuitive on how it works Just freaking works, consistently!
CONS: Button placement is too high, it's ergonomics could be better with the button placed further down the shaft of the tool as if you were naturally gripping a screwdriver Even with MD pricing, it's still pretty expensive. It's thicker than a standard screwdriver, you might need to run an extension to get into tight spots or deep screw holes. I noticed an ever so slight wobble in the drive shaft, meaning it's not perfectly straight (Doesn't really affect usability, but it's not a cheap tool, for the price you pay it certainly should be straight)
All that said, I would not hesitate to buy one of these again, or even upgrade my ES121 to the ES120. It's such a simple little tool, but if you do a lot of work on small electronics it's irreplaceable and will save you more time than you thought possible.
You can even check out SainSmart's website right now. They only list the ES120 for sale, and it's one the newest products in their lineup of tools.
https://www.sainsmart.com/collections/tools-instruments/toolpac
I can take a closer picture of it later tonight, but this is a video of it from February. https://www.instagram.com/p/BfZHfpGDbMr/?taken-by=drkhanmd
That's when I bough a Wiha bit set to accompany it, but I had owned it for at least 1-2 months before the video was shot too.
It's pretty good for laptops. I use mine on my 3dprinter.