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 just took some spare LEDs I had lying around and touched them to the ones that were already in place. I made sure the + and - were correct. They didn't light up.
I will see if I can get a picture of the underside of my PCB, but I am wary of taking it out of the case too many times as the screw holes are not lined with metal and could be stripped.
Managed to fit seven LEDs under the PCB (sharing spots with LShift, Rshift, Spacebar, Esc, Backspace & 2 others). They all lit up fine, although the light diffusion/glowing effect through the acrylic was kinda underwhelming.
However. half a minute into use, the switch LED for my LShift key literally exploded. Not sure wtf I did wrong.
As for your exploding LED, I don't know what to tell you. I'm sure you could find some dual-color through hole LED to replace it, but I've never had to deal with that before.
I wonder where KBP get theirs from.