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
But I'm not sure why you would attach the ergodox to this since they're both complete keyboards Also I figured a num pad would be similar to the ergodox in connectivity
Having two complete keyboards plugged in seems unnecessary except for the case where you have other people using your computer. My Planck is plugged into my Das because my wife won't use the Planck. I seem to remember seeing a picture on Reddit of a guy's girlfriend using the mouse with the Windows onscreen keyboard because she gave up trying to use his ErgoDox.
Seems a bummer to limit it to IC devices but doing direct connections allows the connected devices to be aware of each other which could open up some interesting options like driving lights across devices, or switching layers on a second device from a key press on the first.
edit: Added additional thoughts.
I'm intrigued by the possibility of a numeric pad or macro pad that speaks KLL and can be daisy chained to this.
However while Input Club have said they would love to implement a number-pad in the future, it's not a priority; At the moment your only option really is the Infinity Ergodox - that said, one half of an Ergodox might make a pretty good number pad.