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 your keyboard turns off, then you might either have not enough power on that USB port or on your Mainboard (which should cause a bluescreen). If your port wont talk to the board anymore, you can start the keyboard (plug it in) with the reset button pressed, then you can reflash default firmware.
It is a security measure, so it could potentially be harmful to your system..
I'd try to put the default first to 165, then 200, then 255. The difference on the last steps is minimal.
If you plug the board into your monitor, be sure to disable your motherboards support to make USB Keyboard signals to PS/2 Interrupts if you have that option, otherwise you might experience hanging keys.
1. stepped up the brightness and lowered the dimming thresholds by about 10% so far no blue screens or instability.
2. hell yeah now I can see the legends on my front-printed keycaps!
3. This was my first time programming in C, it's not that scary I'm kind of excited to tinker with some alternative lighting setups now... maybe static key backlight and rgb moving perimeter lights?
4. I'm still kind of bummed out by the space grey, since you're close to the whole project, and they just put out a black ano'd high profile alt... think there's going to be a high profile black ano'd ctrl anytime soon? because that'd be like aesthetically PERFECT.
5. the Halo Trues are a bit too stiff, and I generally like MX blue, but wanted something quieter. I get some issues where the stabilizers jam on off-center shift/backspace presses. Maybe if i swap to wire stabs for the shift keys. or blues it might alleviate the mechanical jamming? idk, I might just swap switches for browns unless there's an black ano hi-profile alt coming out?
6. @DarkMio You're the man, thank you for your help x1000000