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
you can't just mash the switches and PCB components against the wood and screw down. This was a problem in the original royal glam case too, but hasn't been addressed.
This comment is coming from someone that bought the wrist rest royal glam case for $100 and then had to put hours of work into it to make it decent. I had to resand the whole case bc it had rough grains on the wrist section, then put a polywax sealer and glued in brass nuts for standoffs. I also had to chisel out the hole better bc it didn't fit the dip switches on my v60.
many 60% boards have small controllers that will hang down lower than the other parts. And I'm not talking about the dip switches which have a hole cut out for them.
Look at all other tray mounted cases out there and you will see that they all have standoffs. And there is a good reason for it.