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
The sound is amazing. Overall the RC930 is very quiet, but you do get a nice, dull "thock" accompanied with a soft "shh" sound on each keystroke. The stock dental banding prevents the harsh "click" that my FC660C has on the upstroke. I really enjoy it. I almost enjoy the sound of the board more than the feel.
The stock keycaps are also surprisingly decent. They are ABS and I'll end up replacing them eventually, but they have a pretty nice texture and are fairly thick.
The backlighting looks nice and is customizable without software, but the software allows the keyboard to use even more colors so it's highly recommended to get the software from RK's site.
The case is serviceable. I don't really like the texture of it, but its construction is solid.
The cable looks nice (it's braided red and black, like the picture) but is unfortunately not removeable without mods.
I own a Poker II with MX Browns, a CODE TKL with MX Clears, and the aforementioned FC660C with 45g Topre, but this RC930 just overtook them all as my daily driver. For the price the RC930 is an absolute steal.