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
Any ideas?
The solution to this is to reflow the microcontroller. This means taking a fine tip soldering iron and heating up every pad until it melts then letting it cool again, The iron needs to be clean and you need to make sure after the fact that you haven't bridged any connections.
This isn't for everyone, so, contact Massdrop support to see if they can send you another unit. DilbertProgrammer's board had this exact issue and I fixed it in five minutes.
I'll add this to my growing list of concerns. I may need to buy a plane ticket to China next time to get all of this sorted out!
If you have any friends with soldering skills who owe you a favor now might be a time to call in said favor. :P I don't know where you're located but I'll be at the Austin, TX keyboard meetup this Saturday and will likely be at Keycon where I can service the board myself.
Sorry for this issue, I know how frustrating it can be! One of my earliest prototype boards did this with = and Delete, now that's a problem!