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
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/687166864891445273/971858903597985852/alt_chatter_10-35.bin Note that compiling the custom massdrop firmware is getting increasingly tricky as it becomes outdated, QMK's website was no help at all. I used this guide to compile it on my ubuntu VM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=janRCDU1KPg EDIT: Whelp, looks like I missed Massdrop making their on progress on this just a couple weeks ago: https://drop.com/talk/9382/how-to-configure-your-ctrl-keyboard/2884250 The 'modern' firmware might work just as well if you're getting chatter, I'm going to be testing it out for a bit. EDIT 2: Nope, modern firmware didn't solve chattering for me, switched back to my 10/35. If nothing else it should be substantially easier to build though, might try modifying the new firmware with a larger delay soon.