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
Overall for the price range that this board is in, you are getting a decent package for not too much. If you are planning on using it for travel or moving it around alot, I would suggest getting a 60% carrying case (yes this will fit in one) so that the keycaps dont go flying everywhere due to the lack of a "casing lip."
Long story short: this is a complete piece of junk.
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Choc Mini 84 is available with POM black caps vs. PBT white caps. POM is supposedly even HARDIER than PBT, but can only make dark colors from what I understand. Do NOT pick up the Choc Mini 75. That uses a very weird "not-quite-Lightning" cable. Looks like Lightning, but regular Lightning cable won't work.