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
One MORE question: can you ever get a custom cable, or at least one that is not the norm? How would you attach it (if it's even possible) to one of these keyboards?
Thank you, Brenda
Thank you, Brenda (I'm trying to catch on, but not there yet.)
Detachable Cable Example:
USB-A is the big USB plug typically seen on computers or wall plugs. It is the size of most flash drives. Every computer has at least one of these.
USB-A Plug:
I am not sure what you mean a 'custom cable, or at least one that is not the norm?'. You can use any custom cable for this keyboard AS LONG AS it uses USB-C to connect to the keyboard. What kind of customization where you thinking of beyond sleeveing or custom lengths?
I am not sure what I mean by a custom cable, but I am thinking of trying to find one that is just "different looking" than the plain old black cables that you typically see. As usual, I don't know what I'm talking about, but just thought, since I am going to have a neat looking keyboard, I would try to find a likewise neat looking cable for it.
MD seems to be the place to look for "different" things. It's also the place to come to ask questions. All there is locally is one big box store, with nothing in keyboards or cables other than just ... normal stuff.
THANK YOU, Brenda
Brenda
Brenda
But be careful with the cable sleeving. You can buy customer sleeved cables, where you do not have to do anything but plug it in, but sometimes they are 'kits' and you have to sleeve the cables yourself. Make sure to watch a youtube video on it to see the process.
I MD just recently had a drop with custom cables (https://www.massdrop.com/buy/mechcables-laser-custom-sleeved-usb-cable). There are a bunch of other sites out there with custom cable options.