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
Expect an update from us by the end of the day Pacific Time on 2/1 or sooner if something comes up.
Heck, first keycap set for me! I don't even know what to expect! A tray, baggies? Do they ship bulk keys, or divided sets? I'm just really curious how it works behind the scenes for something with as many individual bits and bobs as 1500-ish main and child packs of a keycap set!
NO idea how to implement that functionality in code though. I don't even have number pad plates, so I ain't TOO worried about number pad functionality just yet. For now, I just wanna get the ports installed, so I can add the functionality by software int he future, should I build it.
You can see a MagSafe 1 connector disassembled. It was a little thicker than MagSafe2, but the construction is almost the same. Between the number pad and the keyboard, one side will have that tiny metal shell and the small pogo connectors mounted in it, along with some steel posts to mate up with the magnets in the other half. The other half will have matched magnets and the magnetic side of the connector. Thinking of making the magnetic part be the keyboard. In the Apple Laptops, the magnetic part is the laptop, not the cable. It also makes creating accessories easier, as I only need to salvage a cable, and not the replacement part for a laptop.