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
Quoting SamFlynn: " I have one of these, and I want to break the code and reprogram. Does anyone know what we are dealing with in the controller before I desolder mine to the max? I really want to write my own firmware for mine since it does not send Numpad codes, but number rows...yuk. " & " Nope. The problem is that the controller is very simplistic and requires a hardware rewriter in order to make changes. I tried the USB to USB converter made by Hasu, but it will not work at all. (Any Varmilo brand keyboards I have tried have the same result) I think we're stuck... "
P.S. I have one and ran into the same issue which lead me to bookmark that thread for future drops in case people were wondering.
Finally, he will make custom sized switch testers if you want to have them ALL in one place.