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 haven't decided yet if I will do it or not, however, what I would probably do is run it on both pro micro and pi. I would use a toggle switch to physically switch between the female keyboard output, and to power the raspberry pi.
However, if I needed to run both the pi and the preserve the USB keyboard functionality simultaneously, I would STILL need a toggle switch, to disconnect the keyboard from the pi so the strokes don't get sent to both OS's at the same time, even if I had the ability to do so.
Just a bit of reality I came to knocking this idea around in my head as well.
The pi is garbage for doing USB as it non-native. If you want no pro-micro and ONLY a pi, you will need to directly wire the matrix, and do it yourself. I think that amount of work isn't worth it.