mildly improved Bento macropad with the same form factor

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This shares the same form factor as the bento Dwin17 did. I've just made a few quality of life improvements. It's the same thing but better basically. Absolutely identical visually and dimensionally. The base did not fit a pro micro well, so I widened it. There is more clearance for pro micros. I'm not really sure why my pro micros were all wider than the slot they were meant to go into. The height of the walls of the base were raised so the two halves of this print could go better together, and be held together more effectively using a less-permanent glue. The square hole for the EC11 rotary encoder did not accommodate the pins of the EC11 well. Therefore I widened the hole and now my EC11s fit. That's it. There are other adjustments that can be made which would change the shape but improve its ease of assembly. This macropad could be 1mm or 2mm taller, as it's hard to clear the wiring otherwise, especially if you use brass rod method for wiring the switches. Thoughts and tips on assembly: My recommendation to improve your chances of closing the bento box once you're done wiring, is to wire all the wires at a 90 degree angle to the pins of the EC11 and the switches (like a + where the pin and wire cross). This is the only effective way I have found to prevent pin breakage when cramming it into the bento box. Additional notes: please take note that when making adjustments to the bento's rev1/rules.mk, you should NOT set RGBLIGHT_ENABLE to "no". For some reason this breaks all of the macro keys and only the encoder works lol If you wish to set MOUSEKEY_ENABLE to "yes" so you can do funny things like bind scroll to the EC11, you'll find that there's not enough memory space when compiling. I recommend setting CONSOLE_ENABLE to "no" instead of touching RGBLIGHT_ENABLE.