Keyboard

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After many years of using a Pok3r 60% keyboard, I recently switched to a Keychron K7 65% keyboard.

The main reason for the change was that I still used the classic arrow keys quite a lot and on the on the Pok3r you need to activate them with a shortcut, to change to right shift, ctrl, Fn and Pn keys to work as arrow keys. And aside from that the Pok3r keyboard had a mysterious behavior that would wake up my Mac at random times during sleep mode.

Top is the Pok3r, below is the Keychron

Nevertheless, 65% felt quite large coming from the 60%, and after years of being accustomed to having the backspace key at the edge of the keyboard and also never using page up and page down keys anyway, I made use of the hot-swappable switches and removed the keys I didn't need.

To not expose the keyboard PCB, I 3D-printed some caps to "close" the holes, which worked quite nicely. You can download the STL-file here.

Keychron with custom lids

So now I probably have a 62isch% keyboard. ;)