Support for Alternative Layouts
This is a summary of how alternative layouts have been supported by kits such as Colevrak and Homing. It is not a discussion of alt layout performance and development, but if that interests you I highly recommend starting with Pascal Getreuer’s A guide to alt keyboard layouts (why, how, which one?). It’s a concise and comprehensive overview with links to some great sites that go deeper. He also has a separate Links about keyboards page. The Keyboard layouts doc he recommends explains layout goals and metrics in detail, summarizing the alt layouts discussed here as well as more than one hundred others. Sculpted-profile The majority of custom keycap sets are sculpted-profile (Cherry, SA, MT3, KAT, etc. - more on profiles generally here) so let’s start there. Because each row has a unique keycap shape, alt layouts require a unique keycap for each legend that moves off its QWERTY row. At first there were two The Dvorak layout was patented in 1936 by August Dvorak & William L....
Apr 23, 2024
for anyone planning on buying this RGB model to mod in cherry switches/cherry clones i really don't recommend it. Cherry switchs (real ones) don't fit 4 pin LED's and have to be modded (can be done by de-liding and using a Dremel tool to remove material), and if you don't have a de-Soldering station its so F-ing hard to not ruin the pads on the LED solders. I ruined one of these boards that i tried to mod by doing it with a soldering pen and solder sucker, it was awful, bought a de-soldering station it was significantly less awful.
I've bought 3 of these boards, one of the Blue led ones, and two of the RGB, had no problems with any of them, I've only used the black switches, I've not used a real Cherry black, so i cant comment on that. Others below have said that the space bar feels mushy, i sort of agree, if your used to using a high end keyboard (i swapped from a full sized WASD Code with MX Greens) it will not feel nearly as good, but you do get used to it. The problem with it, is it just uses two stabilizers on the sides that don't have the tightest tolerance, so if you tap the space bar over the stabilizer rather than near the switch itself it will depress and not activate the switch (it doesn't have the metal bar between the stabilizers)
Note i couldn't get the software for this to work with Win10, but you don't need it to control the LED lighting modes (there's quite a few) it can be done with the FN+F8 keys, as well as brightness and color change( for single color mode) being tied to FN+arrow keys
i had been thinking about writing out a full review and/or a mod log for this board, if anyone would like to see that let me know i could find time to write it out and take pic's. if you have any questions you feel i might be able to answer feel free to reply to this
But the software is not English in case you didn't know.