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dvorcol
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
CousinTimmy
Promo codes for stack Macropad v2
is there any promo codes right now that work with the STACK OVERFLOW THE KEY V2 MACROPAD? link:https://drop.com/buy/stack-overflow-the-key-v2-macropad?searchId=ead314359856d5486d35f4713cff32e9
Apr 23, 2024
Robbedoes
*Help* Screw in stabilizers not fitting in Dropshift V2 keyboard
I'm trying to build a mechanical keyboard with screw in stabilizers, I've build some mechanical keyboards with click-in stabilizers, never with screw in. Somehow one of the pins of the metal top-part collides with the screw in stabilizer of the numpad "enter key". I already tried grinding of a bit of the pin that collides with the stabilizer, but unfortunately I can't make it fit/close properly. You can see that the pin of the toppart leaves a mark on the bottompart of the stabilizer, see picture 2. What am I missing? Using Durock V2 in a Dropshift fullsize V2. See pictures below, thanks in advance!
Apr 23, 2024
Fukyachickennuggets
Polymer clay
Don't drop crazy cash on custom wood builds! Instead go buy polymer clay and paint. Then you can spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to make it look like you can afford to drop crazy cash on...
Apr 22, 2024
GrEEdYY
HELP PLEASE!
HELP PLEASE! I put noise insulation in the keyboard and after that it stopped working, the only sign of life is 5 blinks of orange light.can do something about it? model:DROP ALTv1
Apr 22, 2024
Durazell
Want to build a Clicky Mech Keyboard. Where to begin?
Hello all. Am brand new to the idea of building my own keyboard. Have not a clue where to begin this process. I am a Sim Game enthusiast. American Truck Sim, DCS Flight Sim and goes from there. Need some real help on where to start for making my own Full Size, Clickey Mechanical KB. I want each key to have its own backlighting. Are there keys that are better than others for this? Is there a great spot on site for a person who has never even taken a keyboard apart? Let alone fixed or built one? I would like it to fit my theme of Red and Black. Yet maybe have the option of changing things up a bit. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all kindly, Durazell
Apr 20, 2024
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Just my 2cents.
I didn't mean to ruffle all your feathers, just thought I'd post as someone who requested this drop initially, then saw the price and noped their way back to the new jersey warehouse.
Edit: Eh, upon looking it is the 0.01 keyboard so I'm not sure if it's the same manufacturing process. Regardless I'd be curious what happens 6 months out when you lose a magnetic foot...
and my favorite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHHBqqQJ2Zs
Neither of those videos have anything to do with Massdrop
@HotRoderX you should read better - I never once mentioned the ducky one ~ the mini was a 60% board which is programmable and can function as a mouse. If I recall it had a partial aluminum body and it's premium brother (in the video above) is billet aluminum ~Plus LOOK at that sexy serialization badge ~ now that's the wine of serialization stickers!..... Of my dozen or so different keyboards it's the one I find myself falling back to for most tasks which is why I used it as an example. The PBT keys argument is silly since any "connoisseur" will be swapping whatever keys they have on-hand. (and probably overpaid for, but that's "art" lol)
The egos in here are hilarious ~"oh this board is beer while the board I paid 180$ for is wine" meanwhile they're both using cherry switches. (if you pay a premium here lolololol) Thanks for making my night, I'm going to go back to the audiophile community where people are more down to earth.
Ultimately it is up to the individual as to what they are willing to pay and what interests them. At the end of the day, however, the price is what it is. Perhaps you're not familiar with manufacturing costs, but this isn't some overhyped and overpriced junk. What you consider value has no bearing on the cost of production.
Would be wise to not assume we use Cherry switches either. We use Cherry MX style switches, but the enthusiast community hardly bothers with Cherry switches outside of vintage blacks.
Not everyone wants to buy another set of PBT-keycaps for their new keyboard. If I were to spend $180 (or more) on a mechanical keyboard, I'd expect it to come with PBT-keycaps. Since the ALT has RGB lighting, these are shine-through PBT-keycaps, which would save you at least another €40 (or more) from buying a seperate set.
Also, do you want to argue about egos? You came in here complaining about the price of a mechanical keyboard that you don't even own, compared it with a Ducky Mini(?) and then compared that comparison with a Toyota and a Ferrari, while desperately trying to defend your opinion. Come on dude...
I haven't been active in the mechanical keyboard community for very long, but in the short time that I have browsed through this community, I come across a lot of lovely and helpful people. You posted a comment that some people here didn't quite understand and/or agreed with, so they tried to prove you wrong by giving well-thought-out arguments. That doesn't make them unpleasant, does it? I'm a 100% sure that the audiophile community has poisonous members as well.
My point was for MY usage if I want to change switches I can either pick up one of my other boards OR re-solder new switches to one of my existing. In my 6 years of collecting PC equipment I've done that a total of once due to preference change. Be it cherry or halo or anything ~ not sure why type matters at all? (using EC to type this on a leopold) Regardless I'll wait for a 2nd run after hearing of the coil whine issues in the K-type and minimal info on the CTRL and ALT.
Do you really find it amazing that people 'jump' to defend a product that nobody has even held? I think it's quite humorous that you criticized a keyboard that you haven't even held yet, let alone typed on and/or properly used. The idea of the ALT seems great. The price is high, but justified when you compare it to other mechanical keyboards.
Apparently you're easily offended that people disagreed with your poor arguments and that they wanted to prove you wrong. This is a community in which people are allowed to discuss, so don't be surpised when people disagree with you. As I've said before, just because people argue with you, doesn't mean they aren't down to earth. That's a ridiculous statement. If I visit the audiophile community, I'll most likely find people arguing too.
If I were vous, Slobo, I'd have a look at mechanicalkeyboards.com and compare the features of the ALT to those of various keybs on said site.
Personally, I'm always talking myself out of buying iterations of K-Type descendants on MD. But that's only because I'm attempting to hoard money so that I can press it to my chest while cackling. If I were flush, I'd have ordered an ALT already.