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 am by no means an expert in DIY tech however, having just acquired my first soldering pen/gun as of a month ago, may not be approaching it the right way)
However, this: " ...But now I'm thinking a Raspberry Pi would fit under or inside a mechanical keyboard case or mount... " has been something that I have thought about and will be following this to see where this goes...
I too would like to know how feasible it would be to mount one into a MK, though I think my intentions might be slightly different. I'm interested to know if the RP could be used as the KB controller and control back/under lighting along with functioning as a computer on its own... Or maybe like, a home made logitech G19 or something.