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
1. is it true that anytime I remap a key, I am eating into that 100,000 life cycle? 2. if I ever reached this 100,000 end game, how do I go about resetting my keyboard so I can use it again? 3. if question 2 requires too lengthy of an answer, do you have a resource that I can go study?
Thank you for any help you can provide in this area. I love this keyboard but would hate to brick it for simply using it as intended. Also, i'm not really into the "pay $170 for a new one every 2 years because I don't know how to flash the eeprom"....whatever that is.
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!
I can't seem to upload pics here, the SPI pictures are the last 3 in the link above (2.): Original -> New SPI flash -> Installed SPI flash