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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
CousinTimmy
Promo codes for stack Macropad v2
is there any promo codes right now that work with the STACK OVERFLOW THE KEY V2 MACROPAD? link:https://drop.com/buy/stack-overflow-the-key-v2-macropad?searchId=ead314359856d5486d35f4713cff32e9
Apr 23, 2024
Robbedoes
*Help* Screw in stabilizers not fitting in Dropshift V2 keyboard
I'm trying to build a mechanical keyboard with screw in stabilizers, I've build some mechanical keyboards with click-in stabilizers, never with screw in. Somehow one of the pins of the metal top-part collides with the screw in stabilizer of the numpad "enter key". I already tried grinding of a bit of the pin that collides with the stabilizer, but unfortunately I can't make it fit/close properly. You can see that the pin of the toppart leaves a mark on the bottompart of the stabilizer, see picture 2. What am I missing? Using Durock V2 in a Dropshift fullsize V2. See pictures below, thanks in advance!
Apr 23, 2024
Fukyachickennuggets
Polymer clay
Don't drop crazy cash on custom wood builds! Instead go buy polymer clay and paint. Then you can spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to make it look like you can afford to drop crazy cash on...
Apr 22, 2024
GrEEdYY
HELP PLEASE!
HELP PLEASE! I put noise insulation in the keyboard and after that it stopped working, the only sign of life is 5 blinks of orange light.can do something about it? model:DROP ALTv1
Apr 22, 2024
Durazell
Want to build a Clicky Mech Keyboard. Where to begin?
Hello all. Am brand new to the idea of building my own keyboard. Have not a clue where to begin this process. I am a Sim Game enthusiast. American Truck Sim, DCS Flight Sim and goes from there. Need some real help on where to start for making my own Full Size, Clickey Mechanical KB. I want each key to have its own backlighting. Are there keys that are better than others for this? Is there a great spot on site for a person who has never even taken a keyboard apart? Let alone fixed or built one? I would like it to fit my theme of Red and Black. Yet maybe have the option of changing things up a bit. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all kindly, Durazell
Apr 20, 2024
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- you can buy it without switches and key caps, so it can be a good test bed
- five-pin hot-swap sockets, so you can test both 5 and 3-pin switches
- small form factor, so it does not take up too much space if this is your nth keyboard
- I could easily find key caps to it (similar colour combination than in the picture illustrations), and there is only a single key cap with a different label than its function
- they gave a map to help find the <fn> controlled keys
indifferent things:- USB c cable: who cares?
- plastic case: metal cases are prohibitively expensive
- I use it with the pink switches sold here some time ago.
Not so good things:- driver is only for windows (by now I do not have a single windows OS running either home or at work.
- I need a map to it to find some frequently use keys (<end> & <home>, <pg up/down>, <insert>)
- stabilizers are quite crappy. some lube helps most of them (in some degree). for the <enter>, I had to swap to a green clicky switch to register. without the lube, or the <enter> even with the lube and the 45g switch I used in other places only gave out a muffle thump but not the mechanical click one would expect. And not even each key strikes registered, and the return to the (almost) top position was sluggish. By now, all is good and I'm typing this on the keyboard.
A possible solution to the sluggish <Enter>, <Backspace>, and <Space> that worked for me: one of the toughest clicky boxed switches: blue and green + plus some silicon oil on the stabilizers.Why I would not recommend to a friend: I'm sure there are better ones there: ones with better stabilizers and open source software.