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
1. Are the Macros and/or Settings stored on the device or on the user's profile in the attached PC, or in public storage on the user's PC?
2. Any additional settings have been added since the video? I am looking for the ability to re-assign a pre-recorded macro to a different key, and block-of-text features, similar to the operation of Logitech G devices.
3. Any plans or mods seen to add pop-out feet? I'd like to see this as a feature since the horizontal option is cool but it would suck to have permanent feet in case elevation or rotation adjustments were desired. Even a clip-on solution would be cool because of the modularity given the design, and would add little to the cost.
It is always possible that this device is completely different from their 8-button offering, but I highly doubt it. I'd bet the only difference is the number of keys and the price.
I actually want to get the kit version and incorporate it into a sort of "assistive" game controller I use for playing 3D FPS style games. It has 6 arcade buttons and joystick, and I use an MMORPG gaming mouse for the 12 buttons on the side to mostly take the place of a keyboard for my left hand. Sometimes, though, when not "in the heat of battle" I still have to reach for the keyboard to hit buttons that aren't used very often (like esc or enter), so it would be nice to add a little 'mini-keyboard' to my joystick controller to handle those buttons. It would also add the ability to have some macros and give me a nice GUI to programe those buttons (rather than having to do it in the firmware code, like the six arcade buttons). I might desolder the profile switch and run wires to a button on the face or side of the controller box to let me switch profiles. I hadn't planned on needing to, but it would be nice to have the option if I ever needed it in the future.
On Layer 2, the L1 key goes back to Layer 1 and the L2 key goes forward to layer 3 and so on...