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
Quick update: Keyboards arrived at our warehouse this morning. Expect them to be shipped out tomorrow! :)
And on a funny note... we have to teach our warehouse staff to recognize Chinese characters (see picture).
Thank you guys so much for your hard work and patience with your suppliers. I know we've been patient, too, but we certainly didn't have to learn Chinese for it! Thanks again! I hope all your work will pay off with the ErgoDox drop too!
So Excited to finally get my keyboard.
Not saying it's hard, probably would take an hour tops determining which set of characters correspond to what, but we've waited this long so a few more days won't hurt.
I love MassDrop for the ability to get impossible to buy items, but this now has nothing to do with that. They have had the keyboards at their warehouse early this week, they advertise that it takes them 24 hours to ship once they get product at their warehouse. I know they have to figure out what a couple symbols in chinese mean, but thats pretty easy. Like yjtt said, it not like we have a million orders with 50 different types... There one LED color, so we can ignore that chinese symbol, there are then 3 keycap choices and a few switch choices... Should only take an hour to sort into piles the different orders (only 158 keyboards).
I feel like no one is even working on it, otherwise they would have been shipped by now...
I hate to say it, since I like massdrop and usually defend and support them, but at this point its entirely unacceptable and massdrops fault that they havent been shipped yet. (again, especially since they constantly advertise that things are shipped within 24 hours of arriving at the warehouse!)
If, for some reason, you can't order and send the keyboards by the deadline, just say so. Don't leave us in the dark.