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
- Switches (obviously)
- stablizers https://novelkeys.xyz/collections/miscellaneous/products/cherry-stabilizers
- keycaps https://www.massdrop.com/buy/gmk-white-on-black-custom-keycap-set
- USB mini b cable
Things not discussed is building the kit. you will need:- a soldering iron
- solder
- desoldering pump
- soldering stand
- sponge
Try to practice before hand. this keyboard is big and you dont want to mess up on something that requires 100 switches to be soldered in. of course, you might be able to find a service that will cost about the same as buying all of this. Next, qmk is easy these days. go here and build your layout https://config.qmk.fm/#/tkc1800/LAYOUT After that download the hex file and save it. Download toolbox https://github.com/qmk/qmk_toolbox/releases, and drivers https://github.com/qmk/qmk_driver_installer/releases . Press the reset button , install the drivers. once the computer has detected the keyboard, use qmk toolkit to flash, here is docs on all this. https://docs.qmk.fm/#/ Ask any questions, i have v1 of this keyboard.https://kbdfans.cn/collections/keycaps
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