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
After 2 years of moderate use it stopped working, from day to night, with no apparent reason. Apparently something went wrong in the firmware and fucked up the keyboard so badly it is now completely unusable. Here's how I managed to fuck up the firwmare. Think I was messing around and got (rightly) punished? Not quite. What I did was: turn off computer; plug it off (after it was well shut down; not midway or something like that); plug back in after 1 day or so; turn on computer. Result: keyboard only recognized as "generic usb hub", and not usable anymore.
The only thing I can do now is order that 40$ piece of equipment from them, or send the keyboard to them and let them repair it (at my cost, since warranty it's only 1 year; at this point for a good reason from their part I suppose).
Here's their response:
"Based on the information, we would guess the keyboard's firmware has crashed, in order to refresh the firmware will require firmware re-write device"
And, when I asked how the fuck a 130$ piece of equipment can get broken so badly just by turning of and on my computer:
"There are many factors could cause the damage on keyboard or firmware crash, such as sudden electrical spike." Which is complete bullshit: I don't call turning the pc on a "sudden electrical spike". And if it can get damaged so easily, well, gg build quality I'd say.
So yeah, I advise you don't buy any of their keyboard, they seem to have really shitty quality if they can get broken by something like this. Save your money and choose a better company.
Note to self: If warranty is only 1 year it means the build is shit. This probably for every piece of technology out there.
You're pissed off and I understand. But please confine your response to the specific product page where it belongs. Cross-post to product pages in different internet stores, if you must. But don't make people on massdrop read the same post over and over.