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
- Pulse HiPro CTRL - $199 (no switches, no SA caps) or $240 (with Halo switches, no SA caps)
- Top part, bottom part, diffuser, built in plate, stabilizers
- Hot swap (no soldering required);
- QMK, RGB, LEDs;
- Dual USB;
- Cyan anodization or black anodization.
Let's look at "similar" options:- TGR Jane - $550 (no switches, no caps, no cable, no stabilizers)
- Comes with case, plate, PCB, weight;
- Is programmable, has LEDs, a couple anodization colors;
- No hot swap, no dual USB, RGB underglow.
- https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=97552.0
This is just a couple examples, there are several other high end kits out there that cost about the same as the TGR and the Duck and are all inferior to the Pulse High Pro in literally every aspect. Even if you go full blow here and add the Pulse SA keyset the Pulse HighPro CTRL is still a better deal then anything else in the market. It's one hell of a kit!