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
Massdrop being the awesome hosts that they are, offered to host again.
(though I have been investigating some other venues to mix things up a bit)
Saturday September 24, 2016 @ 1 PM Massdrop HQ 100 Bush Street, Suite 1000 San Francisco, CA 94104
BART is the most convenient way to get to Massdrop. It's a short 3 minute walk from Montgomery St. Station. 10th story. Just tell the guard you're with the Massdrop keyboard meetup. Parking...well, good luck, it's SF.
Please RSVP so we have an idea of numbers for food (and if you have dietary restrictions).
https://ti.to/kiibohd/kiibohd-17-september-24-2016 <= RSVP
You'll also be added to the Kiibohd Meetup mailing list.