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
Good question! This keyboard has many uses since it can be programmed to do a theoretical infinity number of things. A few example user cases can be seen in the comments, like people that program it to play games. Instead of using the keyboard of a laptop, people program this mechanical keyboard with cherry mx switches to do the requested actions in-game. People also use it to send default messages in the game-chat, such as "Good game!".
I've also seeb people using it for media control to pause/play multimedia and to mute/change the sound volume.
A third thing people do is setting it up for programming/software development. They simply use it to write pieces of code they use often with the press of a button. Idk if you know anything about programming, but examples of this are for/while-loops and framework specific codes which are often used in frameworks like Laravel for authentication.
Many things can be done with this keyboard. If you have a repititive task, it's possible to make your life easier with this.