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
No personal interest in this, only suggesting it because I own two of them and a third is on the way so I have more than enough experience with them.
The device comes with two simple to use configurators, KBFlasher and the Knops App. Once the Knops App has all basic features, the KBFlasher tool will be phased out. You can test the configurators yourself if you are interested:
KBFlasher (older, but completely working configurator): http://www.knops.io/configurator.html Knops App (newer, but still in open beta): https://app.knops.io
I am currently not aware of any in-depth reviews.
I'll end it with this. I have several macro keyboards, 2 keys all the way to 44 key ones. My favorites are the 6 key based ones (SixShot, Rama M6, Knops) because I feel it's just the right amount of keys for a portable macro pad. You can have arrow keys, nav cluster, multimedia control, etc 6 key based macro boards are the best. Buy this, you won't be disappointed.
The keyboard comes pre-configured with numbers 1-6. It stopped working after a few days.
Don't waste your money. This keyboard does not work.