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
So when I hear people say anything about "I can do it at home" yeah you can, in your dreams.
No one at home without an investment and the time to learn the skill is going to make a wrist rest comparable to those available on MD.
Sorry even your 20 min job didn't convince me. How could it? I still need some basic tools.
Appreciate you living up to your buddy's offer. You showed him. No sarcasm.
Honestly, it really is about the simplest thing you could make from wood, it's just an offcut trimmed to the right width and length with a saw, and cleaned up to smooth with a plane, that sloped bit at the front done with the plane, and then the corners knocked off it with a spokeshave. You could do it on a kitchen table. And the timber yard I normally buy my timber from would give away offcuts in this size if you just wanted one and they had it kicking around, I've been given larger bits of sapele by them in the past like that.