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
Twice the keyboard just stopped working entirely after pressing a key (UP event never happens) until unplugging, not sure if that's related to contact with the case tho (considering the first drop didn't even contain the foam I highly doubt this tho)
Regarding the key chatter issues (double/triple letters): There's actually a software solution that mutes the keyboard for a certain time to 'fix' the debounce time. Depending on how often it happens this might be worth looking into.
Btw; did you ever figure out how to get your keyboard to be flush?
Regarding the unflush fit of the plate/case: I think I didn't press the PCB close enough to the plate, causing the unflush fit when using the foam. I really can't be bothered to desolder all the switches/LEDs, so for now I just cut a few layers of paper (~1mm) to avoid any static that might be caused from pins touching the case directly.