Maybe you know the problems of working with different keyboard shortcuts or key combinations which are often used.

You might experienced the same problem if you are located in a German speaking country and you have to program code: Most of the brackets are located on annoying positions (e.g. { is Alt Right + 7).

The solution is FABI!

You can setup 6 buttons in a part of wood and configure them to support your mainly used shortcuts.

It's possible to assign copy&paste, if/for/while combinations and also different shortcuts for other programs (e.g. Jump frames in a video editing software).

This is the setup I use:

Please note, that different keyboard layouts by your Host-PC are only supported by the Teensy microcontroller. The Arduinos don't provide different layouts by now.

Some extra pictures of the build:

I know, this is more of a dirty hack, but it's quite useful for me :-)

If you dig a little bit deeper to the configuration software, you will find the possibility to use different key setups with so called slots.