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
I notice that this board/kit is cited as being LED compatible and the DIY/Assembled version comes with white LEDs. Would it be possible to configure (or mod perhaps,with the new Cherry MX RGB LED backlighting? Is there a reason such an option isn't present here?
Thanks.
I'm planning on doing sip socket mod myself so led are hot swappable. Its a cheaper route and quicker route. I don't plan on swapping leds all the time so its a nice alternative. The down side is the colors are limited to a few colors unlike V70.
tldr: its way too expensive and time consuming to make it work. Do sip sockets if you want variation of colors.
Cherry RGB video: