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 have since put some rgb on it, just like the review samples, and am waiting to get my switches so that I can swap the Cherry out with something good. Hopefully some holtites will fit to make it swappable!
I used these pictures as a reference, https://imgur.com/a/jPuYOXC , from a review of the board, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DElZ9fodxpU .
For the leds I used 3528 rgb with a common anode, https://www.ebay.com/itm/100pcs-SMD-0402-0603-0805-1206-3528-2835-5050-5730-LED-Diodes-White-RGB-Light/122017200261?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&var=421021698677&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Here is what mine looks like now
This is the RGB control for the Pok3r RGB that works with the Vibe
There are also solder recepticals like these Mill-Max, https://www.digikey.com/products/en?keywords=7305&keywords=7305-0-15-15-47-27-10-0&pkeyword=7305&v=. They might work better since you can fill in the extra space with solder. Here is an album that a reddit user made using them. https://imgur.com/a/uN1HhPC
https://www.massdrop.com/vote/DIY-Hot-Swap