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
I have my guesses as to why this happened. One is that my contact within Massdrop was powerless to prevent this. The other is that the parties in question thought that I was not being responsive. I wasn't - my family had a new baby and I took some months off. Nothing like seeing your design ripped off because you were too busy tending to a baby.
As of this writing there is no formal relationship between Massdrop and XMIT Keyboards. This offering is NOT for a board that was designed and QA'd by me. I may read some design feedback but I am powerless to make improvements (since this is a ripped off design).
I may offer a next generation keyboard at a future time but this is not it. If you want a keyboard that is basically a Gen 2 XMIT board, with minimal QA, different branding, and the same quality control issues, please buy this. Cheers.
Tom Yang, the owner of this Hall Effect Keyboard needs to first STOP complaining about XMIT and his involvement but instead, pull his own finger out and start actually making a QUALITY keyboard.
The complaints thus far of this keyboard doesn't inspire anyone here to spend their hard earned money on. So please get back into building a decent keyboard instead of taking short cuts in quality and trying desperately to blame others for it.
WILL not be buying any version of this keyboard until it's actually fixed. Use quality GMK stabilizers at least, then come here and boast about this so-called, NEW keyboard.