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
RGB is all presets. For solid colors, your options are red, green, blue, yellow, purple (lavender), cyan, and white, and none (off). Everything else -as far as I can tell- is just some kind of typical rainbow effect. I am very happy with just being able to set it to white. There are 5 brightness levels, and the LEDs are as bright as the DREVO Gramr 84, and much brighter than its predecessor: the Keycool Hero 84.
The build quality is just as good as the original Keycool Hero 84, which makes it leagues better than the DREVO Gramr 84. Just like the original, the housing is solid plastic with a metal plate on the inside for weight. In contrast, the Gramr 84 chassis can be flexed in your hands and weighs less, though this shouldn't really affect normal operation...
The cable is detachable mini-usb, and comes with a transparent plastic bracket that can be inserted onto the plug body for security; it basically prevents damage from yanking on the cable.
I can't particularly tell the difference between the Gaterons and Cherry MX, so I see no problem. The included keycaps give it a hollow sound when bottoming out, but I will be replacing those with shine-through keycaps from Aliexpress.
I'm very happy with it, I think I'll buy another.
EDIT: Found out one more thing. The original Keycool Hero 84 and similar keyboards like the Noppoo Choc Mini had a numpad mapped as function keys under 789. It was a terrible numpad and we all hated it. Unfortunately, if you wanted to use a standalone numpad on the side, numlock on the external one would cause the functional numpad on the board to activate, so you couldn't use a standalone numpad with the Keycool Hero 84. The Keycool Hero 2S fixes this problem by completely removing the numpad feature. Thank. God.
Could you share the important keymaps to know ? Such as switching RGB presets, etc...
EDIT : Or at least somewhere where I can find the bindings haha
-Fn+\| or Fn+Pause -Fn+Esc until it turns solid red -Fn+Home to change color
I will post some pictures when I get home.