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'd like to better understand what went wrong here. Please, if you can, take the board out of the trash, get some photos and contact Massdrop support as soon as you are able. Please copy-paste this thread for better processing.
I’d like to better understand the issue. May I ask you to take the board out of the trash, get some photos, and open a ticket with Massdrop support? When you do, please include our thread here on the forums. We can’t work toward a solution without a better understanding of the issue.
It sounds like your poor board hit every QC issue that’s come up, in their worst form, all together. I wonder if there is one person on the factory floor who is doing a worse job with assembly than the others. I bet, too, that they hand picked the nicest boards for my personal shipment. I’ve got a bamboo 104 sitting here and, I tell you, it’s perfect.
The chattering would be a separate issue. Some users have been hit by solder reflow issues. Again, this board should have never left manufacturing as is.
I assume that "smash, trash" means you took a sledgehammer to the board. That's unfortunate, I'm not sure we can RMA a board that is broken in two. But if you can please do RMA it and I'll have a close look. Even if you can't RMA it, I'd rather it end up in my hands than in the trash one way or another. E-mail support@xmitkeyboards.com or PM me on any of the forums if you want to chat offline. Cheers!