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
The MF-87 still pulls more power than my MF-108, and I am unable to plug it into the same unpowered hub that was fine for the larger keyboard with more LEDs.
The MF-108 "ripple" mode looked like spreading concentric rings whereas this one does this rotating radar thing that doesn't look as good. There is a firmware installer on the IKBC site but I don't know which version I have installed and since the installer package is just a zipped EXE with no documentation, I'm not all that keen on trying it.
The typing experience on MX Browns is excellent -- seems better than my MF-108 somehow -- and all keys and LEDs are working. Not a smooth purchase experience but I'm very happy to own it now.