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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....
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CousinTimmy
Promo codes for stack Macropad v2
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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!
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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...
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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
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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
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IMO, double shot might not have been the way to go on this as a dye sub legend might have been better on a transparent keycap. Is there a plan to have double shot transparent legend GMK Laser keycaps in the future?
We didn't want legends to stand out, we wanted to offer something where the user could clearly see the weird injection imperfections and internal structure of the second shot. This follows the cyberpunk aesthetic and futuristic style of degrading artificial intelligence.
> I think Laser Dawn should have had purple legends to contrast better how the purple cap has pink legends.
The pink shell becomes completely purple upon receiving the purple legend as you can see below. I didn't enjoy the final result because contrast was non existent and as a consequence this option was trashed.
> Are there any photos (or are these all renders) of the WASD and Enter keys? Is there a picture showing how these look with a GMK Laser keycap set instead of next to some box standard white shine through keycaps?
The keycap set was not yet manufactured, there are no pictures of it yet let alone with this novelty kit.
> IMO, double shot might not have been the way to go on this as a dye sub legend might have been better on a transparent keycap.
I'm not entirely sure how familiar you are with manufacturing techniques, but it is only possible to dye sub legends in PBT material and said material does not exist in transparent color. Doubleshot was indeed the way to go because we wanted to resemble the endo-skeleton of a cyborg inside a shell made of synthetic flesh. There is no better way to deliver this vision other than the route we followed.
> Is there a plan to have double shot transparent legend GMK Laser keycaps in the future?
No there aren't. Making solid color keycaps with readable translucent legends isn't possible without reworking the typeface as you can see in the picture below. It looks very bad with backlit turned both ON and OFF and also doesn't reflect the cyberpunk aesthetic we envisioned for the project.
Hope you understand, thanks a lot for the support on the original group buy, enthusiasm and feedback
In case you're interested in learning more about the kits, give this journal log a read!
https://mitormk.com/2017/12/22/lets-make-things-clear/
I can understand the aesthetic of the keycap itself, and I think by itself and non-backlit, it looks the part for sure. Even in ambient light and backlit it looks good alright. It's too bad there isn't a manufacturing process right now that could really make it work in complete darkness to make the legend pop out.