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
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There has been quite a bit of controversy this week in the community, and we take a look at two of them, plus a few more 'regular' kind of topics, unfortunately we do run a little over our normal episode length, but I hope you can forgive us for it.
This weeks topics:
- Mechanicon Transparency (https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/9m9bk6/open_letter_to_candykeys_re_mechanicon_rant_or/)
- NOP vs IP (https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/9md09u/icnew_original_panda_linear_switch/)
- Luddite GB (https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comments/9metxn/gb_luddite_pcb_group_buy_very_cheap_skeleton_ansi/)
- Candybar Keyboard (https://thekey.company/blogs/blog-updates/tkc-candybar-the-click-o-stick)
- CoolerMaster Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolermaster/controlpad-24-keys-with-analog-control/description)
Plus our two competitions for the month, for a Idea23 keycap, and our Keebio kit.
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