When Apple came out with iPad Pro 10.5”, I was one of the firsts to drive down to their Cupertino store. The premise of 120 Hz ProMotion screen with noticeable fluidity in writing: I’ll buy that.

But this 10.5” beast was the dawn of camera bumps on tablets - TABLETS. Quite sure tablet is loosely a portmanteau for “let it stay flat on table”, besides the stone tablet our ancestors scribbled upon.

Really, with camera bump on table, one cannot avoid the occasional, "Will it bend if I lay my palm on surface when using Apple Pencil?". And if you have Magic Keyboard, I’m quite sure you had this vulnerability wonderment. But then as I was emptying trash at my folks' place, something transpired,

Based on thickness of this cake box, I had to bind two layers of cardboard cut-out to compensate for camera bump depth, when the iPad is supposed to stay flat on desk for what we might say the iPad Pad. Now for the camera bump through-hole,

Take this “stencil” and stick it back on pad’s cut-out from earlier,

You can carve out this camera bump through hole using paper cutter and ruler. You don’t need to curvature cut corners of this through-hole, except the outmost corner, which should be truncated diagonally to avoid making the adjoining area flaky.

I then joined both these cut-outs using double sided tape. Although not needed but for peace of mind, I ended up covering the bottom side of camera cut-through using Post-It note.

If the camera bump doesn’t fit through-hole, your can always carve out sides 3 and 4 with paper cutter to reduce friction between bump walls and cut-through edges. Just don’t muck with sides 1 and 2! The end result with before/after shot,

Pretty sure a large leftover box from Amazon delivery would have been equally usable, given its average 2-4 mm thickness. That being said at least at least I don’t have to worry about having an bent iPad, due to age, given the uneven stress by palm whilst using apple pencil on flat surface!