The ESP32 is lacking this advanced feature so the USB needs to be cobbled together ... it’s easily able to handle a keyboard or mouse. This might be a more cost-effective way of doing something ...

That interface doesn’t have to be special, and [Dakhnod] is here to show us that it can be done with an ESP32 microcontroller through its USB interface. The linked repository doesn’t tell us ...

The new LilyGo T-Deck Pro is another mobile dev kit with a similar design and the same ESP32 dual-core processor ... that was positioned above the keyboard on the earlier model.