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
If you want, I can cobble your ideas together and give you either a binary that you can flash or you do it yourself.
Dang son, I am currently toying with presets: https://i.miosblog.de/iFCoc.mp4
Impressive stuff and good work!
https://github.com/DarkMio/qmk_firmware/blob/master/tmk_core/protocol/arm_atsam/led_matrix.c#L374 This is the entry code that is in the regular firmware.
The LED code runs somewhere between 60hz and 100hz, so all effects have to respect that. It is possible to write very stable timed code, so with some knowledge how to handle speed and fixed step animations, it is rather easy to write about anything LED wise. The board is more than able to handle almost any LED program you'd wish for. In specific cases and more detailed pointers, you might find me in the QMK discord.
By trade I am a graphics programmer, which is basically doing the same, so it was pretty handy to write about anything on that board.