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
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Actually, that raises an interesting point: what are people doing for tenting bases & wrist rests? Any plans to share?
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Examples: Some people attach with Velcro, some by modifying the case. I prefer the idea of Velcro so that I can remove them for easy portability. See relevant Geekhack posts: Detailed post #1: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=46087.msg1000838#msg1000838 Detailed post #2 (note that these are bigger lifters for a different model): http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=42231.msg854639#msg854639 Another user of this setup: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=42772.msg932713#msg932713
PS: I was in the last buy, so I obviously don't have my kit yet. I'm just prepared :)
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=47887.0
Your aluminium top plates looks great.