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dvorcol
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
CousinTimmy
Promo codes for stack Macropad v2
is there any promo codes right now that work with the STACK OVERFLOW THE KEY V2 MACROPAD? link:https://drop.com/buy/stack-overflow-the-key-v2-macropad?searchId=ead314359856d5486d35f4713cff32e9
Apr 23, 2024
Robbedoes
*Help* Screw in stabilizers not fitting in Dropshift V2 keyboard
I'm trying to build a mechanical keyboard with screw in stabilizers, I've build some mechanical keyboards with click-in stabilizers, never with screw in. Somehow one of the pins of the metal top-part collides with the screw in stabilizer of the numpad "enter key". I already tried grinding of a bit of the pin that collides with the stabilizer, but unfortunately I can't make it fit/close properly. You can see that the pin of the toppart leaves a mark on the bottompart of the stabilizer, see picture 2. What am I missing? Using Durock V2 in a Dropshift fullsize V2. See pictures below, thanks in advance!
Apr 23, 2024
Fukyachickennuggets
Polymer clay
Don't drop crazy cash on custom wood builds! Instead go buy polymer clay and paint. Then you can spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to make it look like you can afford to drop crazy cash on...
Apr 22, 2024
GrEEdYY
HELP PLEASE!
HELP PLEASE! I put noise insulation in the keyboard and after that it stopped working, the only sign of life is 5 blinks of orange light.can do something about it? model:DROP ALTv1
Apr 22, 2024
Durazell
Want to build a Clicky Mech Keyboard. Where to begin?
Hello all. Am brand new to the idea of building my own keyboard. Have not a clue where to begin this process. I am a Sim Game enthusiast. American Truck Sim, DCS Flight Sim and goes from there. Need some real help on where to start for making my own Full Size, Clickey Mechanical KB. I want each key to have its own backlighting. Are there keys that are better than others for this? Is there a great spot on site for a person who has never even taken a keyboard apart? Let alone fixed or built one? I would like it to fit my theme of Red and Black. Yet maybe have the option of changing things up a bit. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all kindly, Durazell
Apr 20, 2024
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Clears are strange. My first encounter with them was in a V60 that I got at Massdrop. I hated the switches at first - very heavy, mushy, fatiguing. I hated the tired feeling I'd get after repeated bottoming out on that increasingly heavy force curve as I'd reach the bottom of the stroke.
I ended up putting O rings on them and that made a huge difference. I enjoyed the tactility at top of the stroke, and the O ring would arrest the stroke before it got to the extra heavy, fatiguing bottom of the stroke.
After that, I now really like them. Still not my favorite feel - they still have a heavy spring feel to them that isn't as crisp as I like, but they're tactile, punchy, and accurate, and my hands don't get fatigued as they once did.
Interestingly, I later got two Poker 3s, both with clears and the heavy aluminum case. Wow, these clears feel different. In one board, they feel tactile, but much lighter and less springy feeling than those in the V60. Much closer to the "more tactile brown switch" that they often are described as. On this one I could type happily and fatigue free even without O rings.
The clears on my second Poker 3 falls somewhere in between the overly springy and heavy feel of the V60 and tactile and light feel of those in my other Poker 3.
I wonder if the heavy aluminum case may have some bearing on the better feel of clears in the Poker 3. If so, clears should be great in the DAS, as it's a solid, heavy tank of a board.
USB 2.0 is for the millions of mice that are available. Hence I don't get why you need to have USB 3.0 on a keyboard because there is NOT a single mouse made anywhere that is able to use it?