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
Hi All!
Since our last update, we’ve made great progress refining our build process and testing the loading process for the main board’s Atmel SAM3S microcontroller. We’ll continue working on features as soon as we have our build, test and load processes down cold.
We’ve also made great progress on plastic refinements and working towards having a new set of production prototype plastics ready to print and test.
And our manufacturing partners are beginning work on the assembly of pre-production main and finger boards.
All work at this point is going towards having a small quantity of pre-production King’s Assembly units ready for testing by the early backers. Both the software development and plastic refinement processes are time consuming. We’re not ready to estimate of when these will be ready to ship. But, rest assured, we’re working diligently to that goal and really looking forward to our early backer’s feedback on the test units.
Happy Holidays!
Eric and the Solid Art Labs Team
That said, on their kickstarter (page https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/70308014/kings-assembly-a-computer-mouse-full-of-awesome) under the details of the mouse cursor we find your answer.
"A key can be mapped such that either toggling it or holding it down disables the mouse optical sensor input, allowing you to reposition the device without moving the mouse cursor (handy for strafing in games, where normally you might lift the mouse up and move it)"
"Combine alternating mouse disabling (using the mouse-disabling key) with opposing mouse movements to create perpetual mouse cursor movement in any direction (yes this takes a minute to sink in, but it's a very exciting feature and only takes a minute of practice to get right)"