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
- The firmware for this board is QMK's YMD75/rev2, That's the PCB included. Unlike other ID boards, this one doesn't have its own firmware.
- The switch connector for the 'A' key is missing one of its holes for one of the plastic pegs in the switch, you'll have to use a razor to remove that peg.
- The weight of my board came out to 1.1kg... A tad too light for my liking. After modification I have it at 1.4kg.
- The excess space in the integrated plat under the keys with stabs allow for too much sound reverb through the chasse. This causes a really deep tone in the spacebar, R-shift, return, backspace. The spacebar especially had such a deep tone that it seemed like it was sticking.
- There's no available sound dampening foam for this board
- To resolve these issues I had to resort to creating a silicone pad from two-part pour silicone to fit under the space bar and cover the massive hole into the chasse.
- I also filled the excess space in the bottom portion of the chasse with silicone to remove some of the volume sound can reverb through and add extra weight to the entire board.
I used Alumilite Amazing Silicone Mold Rubber for the silicone, and poured it onto cling wrap fitted to the inside of the case and for the front bits I poured it into some cling wrap laid across a plate and let it solidify at about a 1.5mm thickness then cut it down to size. My switches are Tealios V2 filmed and lubed with krytox 205. I'm currently using some cheapo pudding caps, but I'll put my Mitolets on this board as soon as they arrive in the mail. Ultimately waiting to put my SA Oblivions on this.