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
- Tried different usb c cables
- Tried different usb ports
- Tried different computers
I'm not sure what's going on but here's logs that I can provide: C:\Users\christian\Downloads\dropctrl>mdloader.exe --first --restart Massdrop Loader 1.03 Massdrop Loader Copyright (C) 2018 Massdrop Inc. This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY Scanning for device for 60 seconds ..................60060306 Device port: COM7 (SAMD51J18A) Opening port 'COM7'... Success! 60060306Found MCU: SAMD51J18A Bootloader version: v2.20 Mar 27 2019 10:04:47 [ctrl] Applet file: applet-flash-samd51j18a.bin Applet Version: 1 Booting device... Success! Closing port... Success! C:\Users\christian\Downloads\dropctrl> The keyboard does not work at all even with the success logs. I'm not sure if this is helpful but I get no devices found when typing --list. C:\Users\christian\Downloads\dropctrl>mdloader.exe --list Massdrop Loader 1.03 Massdrop Loader Copyright (C) 2018 Massdrop Inc. This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY Bootloader port listing ----------------------------- No devices found! C:\Users\christian\Downloads\dropctrl> I have had the ALT and had no issues configuring my board at all. I'm not sure if I should be concerned because the board should work right out of the box. Any help would be appreciated. And yes, I have already contacted Support.