

The irony that I’ve been doing this during the COVID pandemic (and can’t really leave my house anyway), and wouldn’t be close enough to others to bother them if I could, is not lost on me. I’m hunting for something that will let me type in (relative) quiet in public, so I can go out to Starbucks with a tablet and thump away to my heart’s content without bothering those around me. I’ve spent that part of lockdown not building extravagant knock-off LEGO sets, but buying, tweaking, testing, and returning tiny keyboards. It’s an item that, so far as I can tell, does not exist yet. No, what I’m hunting for is the “perfect” portable mechanical keyboard, or at least the perfect one for me. If you’re wondering, it’s a wireless Varmilo VB87M, with the hard-to-find aluminum add-on case, switches swapped out for BOX Navy, and the Galaxy Class DSA keycap set. I’m pretty much finished with my “main” keyboard, the ridiculous custom project I use for work (sitting on top of my other ridiculous custom project).

I honestly can’t tell you how many keyboards I’ve bought and built since then, because a lot of them have been deconstructed, “cannibalized” for parts to put into other keyboards. I jumped on the mechanical keyboard bandwagon the way a lot of people do, with a discounted Razer Blackwidow.
