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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This week, Kevin is back, but, unfortunately his laptop isn't, so he's running like before on his phone. Still, we manage to have a good chat about whats been happening in the keyboard community this week.
- PBT Microwave Dying (https://typehype.net/threads/using-idye-poly-and-a-microwave-to-dye-pbt-keycaps.561/)
- Box Switch Drama again? (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=96323.300)
- Alternative Vortex Core Programming (https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/9hq70z/vortex_core_users_i_present_you_with_a_better/)
- Grab Bags from GMK? (https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/9gwegx/gmk_is_going_to_sell_grab_bags/)
- Breaking 300k on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/9ghefv/n_p_missed_it_but_we_broke_300k/)
- Please don't bake your keyboards (https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/9gf9uo/my_brother_is_about_to_bake_his_keyboard/) We have a bunch of competitions still running, with our usual Keebio monthly giveaway, plus the two competitions for our YouTube 2000 Subscriber Giveaways. You can check out the two links below.
One is a Game of Luck, simply a Gleam driven competition, here: https://gleam.io/voLAn/the-board-podcast-2000-subscriber-giveaway
One is a Game of Skill.
The game of skill involves checking out this post at TypeHype, and putting down your best Horror Story with a Keyboard Twist!
You can find the thread here: https://typehype.net/threads/giveaway-idle-horror-keyboard-show-the-board-podcast-2000-subscriber-giveayway.454/
Both competitions will end at the same time which is the 28th September 2018, so there is plenty of time to get involved.
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