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
But $110 is reasonable...CNC milling isn't cheap, and even low quality cases are expensive (Vortex $150 alu TKL case), though TEX makes very nice 60% cases.
“the cost of making this (the acrylic case) is entirely in the cost of CNC operation. A block of acrylic and a block of aluminum are not significantly different in terms of cost. So, when I list the aluminum version the price will be more or less similar.”
So, what Andrew said is that CNC operation on both materials costs the same and both materials cost the same. So, TEX acrylic and aluminum cases should cost the same and sell for "similar" pricing. But a $60 acrylic case and a $100 aluminum case isn't exactly the same. I think I did pass my math class back in my school days.
Those feet are pretty cool though, so it's probably worth the extra work.
Other than that, no fucking way is $60 similar to $105, please don't try and pretend that it is, even if you are stupid enough to think it is, the rest of us are not.
Very poor form.
When people can't keep their stories consistent, that means they are lying. I am simply to hold you and your company accountable to your words, which I haven't seen enough of it. If you keep doing this, I can assure members will flee and business will go bad. If that happens, all people remember of Massdrop is a nicely designed website providing group buy service running by bunch of amateurs.
Talking about accountability, removing the "talk" section from the top of the page is a sign of your company's accountability going down the drain, because you don't want people to dig up more dirt from the past. There used to be 3 tabs on top, now there are only two. People do notice.
Remember, people are not as stupid as you think.