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
what happened to: ``` To avoid confusion with the current checkout system, we will be changing the drop points manually for this drop. We are paying attention to the number of child kits being bought as well. If they reach certain quantities, we will adjust their prices accordingly. ```
Is anyone able to explain this to me? Thank you
I find a graph easier to look at than a spreadsheet of numbers. Below shows the latest set of numbers Massdrop has shared so far (12/29, which was one day before this drop ended). Note that there are nine kits available in this set.
This second graph below shows the order history for each individual kit, as well as the Massdrop "Purchased" number (which is the total number of customer orders). You can see that Purchased number never exactly matches the Total: All Kits (for the reason I mentioned above).