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 power button of a PC is extremely simple. All the complicated logic is on the motherboard. Two wires come out and it goes to a switch on the case. That switch is a momentary on switch (you push the button and it closes the circuit). And that is exactly how a keyboard switch works. For mechanical switches like this, it does not matter which wire goes to which connector.
Note that there may be other wires coming out to the power switch. There may be extra wires for a LED, if your computer's power button has a light. This will be a bit more challenging, in that the wires are different. You will also need to provide a LED as this one doesn't come with a LED. But you do not need to connect the LED for your computer to work.
You could use it as a reset switch for your computer, but I think it might not work as a power switch.
Edit: I think I found the official Intel spec: http://www.formfactors.org/developer/specs/a2928604-005.pdf - check 2.2.2.4
i made a pcb when i was 14. a pcb is only as complicated as the circuit you want to make. (mine was a simple sensing circuit with a transistor to switch a light and buzzer on.) admittedly the pcb etching fluid was there already, as was the FR4 substrate, but you can buy those online, and even make the fluid at home. here's a little guide which follows the same process i did. https://www.sparkfun.com/news/2116
but even better than that, if you need a one off circuit board... you don't need to print anything. (not that hooking up a switch like this to a motherboard is difficult, as many people have already said.) you can use some veroboard