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
I guess it was a good thing that I bought those brown switches recently after all.
Anyhow thanks again everyone and I look forward to any suggestions on where to get the pcb boards.
Of course, all these options are for the original ErgoDox, not the Infinity version. As far as I know, the only people manufacturing the ED Infinity is Massdrop. I also know that the production for the last drop consumed the world supply of the LCDs that are built into each half, so it would be difficult to self-manufacture unless the LCD supplier increased capacity since last time.
Your best bet to get this keyboard is probably going to be to wait for the next drop. Sucks, I know, but it's worth the wait.
After some work with deburring tools and needle files, it's usable, but it's not worth the cost + shipping, IMO.
(No, I don't have a set. I'm waiting for the next drop.)
Not that it really matters. IMO, the ErgoDox Infinity is what everyone who wants an ErgoDox kit should get.