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 took mine apart just out of curiosity to look at the PCB without breaking anything, but I also used an ifixit small plastic opening tool to do so.
As far as ping goes, I have yet to own a board with strong springs (Clears, Greens, Blacks, etc) that doesn't have any ping. I think this is due to the strength of the spring causing the switch to resonate with the plate when it returns to the normal up position. You can easily test this buy pushing down a key and releasing it, and paying attention to when the ping happens. For my Code and Pok3rs it's always when I take my fingers off the keys.
Two Duckys with clears, no ping. One Keycool with clears, no ping. One CM with greens, no ping. Filco with blacks, no ping. Varmilo with gray tactile, oh my, wonderfull mk with a lot of ping. A bunch of older Cherry mks, no ping , and a few other ones :)
Maybe i just had been lucky, even tough my eyes get worse and worse, my ears still going strong.
Wish you some nice relaxed xmas days.
Merry Christmas and happy klacking to you too! :)