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’ve already addressed this at https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/5cen7o/buying_xmit_hall_effect_keyboard_on_md/d9w0bv4/. Copy-pasting from there:
[The difference between my boards and any other version you might find is] about six months' worth of refinement.
Yes, I'm working with a manufacturing partner for these (since it's more work to design it from scratch than I could do in any reasonable amount of time). Yes, the manufacturer builds boards for other people. Yes, others are similar.
Someone on [another forum] asked the same question. Here's the list of updates just in the past two months :
Upstroke dampened sliders using a modified mold. Updated ping-resistant 50g springs. Updated translucent slider housings for more even backlighting. Cherry style stabilizers standard across all models. Updated tool path for better Cherry stabilizer compatibility across all models. Discontinuation of ABS keyboard case. Mini USB connectors for detachable cables. XMIT Keyboards branding front and rear. Low odor treatment for bamboo boards (no more Tung Oil). New microcontroller (and correspondingly, new PCB) for future customization options. Vastly improved key map on 60% boards. Updated packaging: more substantial box with magnetic closures and XMIT Keyboards branding. Printed manual.
So buy my boards, they're better!
This new discussion functionality is killing me, want to add a break inbetween later, i get a break at the end of the post and other shit. Please MD fix this joke!
AliBaba moves huge quantities hence quality isn't an issue for them because they simply don't care.....