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 keyboard itself is great as a daily driver; super smart function layer out-of-the-box, dipswitches hit the right features for me, significantly cheaper than the Pok3r, but I cannot recommend this with Gateron switches based on my experience with them.
If you're buying this to plug/unplug a lot and use it as a portable solution, consider affixing it to the PCB with something like hot glue or epoxy, it's only held onto the board by solder (granted, at some fixed support points as well as the traces).