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
As for point 3, unless it's been made clear that it's not Formaldehyde, keep it out of reach of children and wash your hands after touching the keyboard. If it is Formaldehyde... why wasn't a neutralizing pad included in the packaging? It's illegal to ship a product without a neutralizer in some countries. (Like the one I'm living in.)
Not entirely impressed... No reply from Massdrop about point 2 - raised a ticket yesterday.
For loose keys, I'd recommend a 1cm square of clear plastic bag material between the stem and the key cap as a shim for the time being.
As for right shift getting stuck, you might try removing the switch, removing the stabilizer, making sure the stabilizer plastics are correctly assembled (the inner piece looks like it has rotational symmetry but there is a small notch that needs to line up), and re-assembling. There have been some tolerance issues noted. I hope this helps.
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