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
Couple of things I learned from setting this up. 1. Don't worry about the small piece of what looks like a transistor sticking up at the bottom of the PCB near the space bar. Leave that as is. When you put the switches into the top plate, you will see that they will automatically create about 2 mm separation to the bottom PCB. 2. Put in the stabilizers and test them out to be sure that the layout you want, will actually work. As the metal plate will cover the stabilizer bar, you can't put these in after you solder your switches. (Like others, I did not see any 7 U stabilizer wire, just the 6.25. I didn't need 7 u wire in any case) 3. As others have pointed out, you have to configure your keyboard for the default layout you want. This is not custom programming. Just a couple of key presses to pick default setup. 4. You have to put in a coin cell battery into the remote. It does not come with a battery. Not sure who decided to leave the battery out, considering how expensive the keyboard itself is. Once you have the battery inserted, then you should be able to turn the lighting effects on and off.
Keyboard looks and works great. Then again, GMK carbon, even if only covering a part of the keyboard would make any keyboard look great.
No 7U stab wire here, either. Seems like they didn't include that.
are the ones from techkeys any good? http://techkeys.us/collections/accessories/products/cherry-mx-stabilizers