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
Planck Light Bootloader Instructions Before you start, you will need to remove the Planck Light PCB from the case in order to access the bottom side of the PCB. While it is possible to flash the Planck Light from the top side, we recommend that you flash it from the bottom side because the bottom side has the pin labels. It is possible to cause damage if the ISP flasher board is inserted incorrectly. 1. Launch QMK Toolbox: https://qmk.fm/toolbox/
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