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
If you want to know where my works at look up in the sky next time you see a rocket get fired. :P
I don't think a scientist would ever pass off such crass blanket statements so please don't take my scepticism personally. Your field of work is also completely irrelevant so long as you have no actual evidence to move forward.
PS: To specify, when I say I want you to design something similar I mean all of it - come up with a hot swappable PCB of your own (or pay someone to) as well as sort out the entirety of the case.
Where can I get aluminum blocks, printed PCB, SMT components, Kaihua sockets, LEDs, and switches for $12? Where is this machine shop that can do the milling and anodizing for only $8? There are many projects I myself could start since you make it sound so easy!
It happens all the time, and the hobby is the better for it. We are in the golden age of bespoke input devices, and if you aren't totally full of shit, you can make some money and be a part of it.
Also, rockets are cool.