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
I spent some time over the weekend working on a dfu-programmer app for OS X and Windows - the goal with this is to make it easier for users to program their PCBs without having a development environment setup. I have a pre-release version available at the link below if you'd like to check it out!
I talk about this and other web app possibilities on our podcast - check out the episode at the second link!
https://github.com/jackhumbert/dfu-programmer-app/releases/
https://soundcloud.com/board-makers/episode-19
Thanks!
Jack"
Expect an update from us by the end of the day Pacific Time on 11/13 or sooner if something comes up.
My understanding is that at least part of the delay with the PCBs is that the first sample they sent him didn't have the bootloaders flashed, which would have made them impossible to reprogram, which would have been completely unacceptable.
None, not even one a single one, of us participants have gotten our Plancks yet, but if you don't think that it's worth waiting a few short weeks longer to get this quality product with excellent customer service, you can always contact Jack to cancel your order and make his life a tiny bit easier in doing so.
You mention the additional milled bottoms, but those aren't affecting this drop at all - if you read the upgrade info, you would see that the entire order sans the milled bottom would be shipped separately (and sooner) if you choose to upgrade. Once we got the confirmation dates from my shop (the latest being early December), we shared them - things haven't changed since then.
Instead of hopping on here to complain and spread misinformation, maybe you should contact Massdrop and myself to arrange a refund.
Thanks to SergeantFTC and Eric.T for the quicker responses with accurate info.