You could use a mixture of knob twists and key presses to produce a letter. How cool!
That sounds terrible.
But you could definitely remove all the switches here, transplant them into a new case in a different shape, and have enough to type on. I wouldn’t recommend it though.
More usefully, you could build a custom keyboard using typical keyboard switches/caps, and add those sweet jog-wheels. [Although, it’s impossible to tell how nice they are without feeling them. There might be better ones to use instead.]