I like to have a mechanical keyboard as I type the whole day long and "just because"...
Total noob who thought: "How hard could it be?" <- turns out: very...
(read: everything you read below, I didn't know about anything at all 48 hours ago.)
As I could not decide which topic board to use (as I have trouble on all steps involved), I just tell you how it is going right here:
The plan: 1) Buy the Red Scarf III Ver.A 96 at MassDrop- Except that I need to wait for half a year until delivery:
- I have only 6 days left to decide if I could actually handle the whole thing
2) Make a custom keyboard layout at keyboard-layout-editor.com- ok, no problem here except I barely know what I'm doing
- you may see my current doodle here:
PLZ SEE MY RESPONSE BELOW (I maybe call it "Commander Shepard"; I'm positive nobody else did this. Ever.)
3) Have the custom key caps printed at maxkeyboard.com - they may not support a "1.75 left shift", though
- already contacted their support regarding this (waiting for reply)
4) Import the custom keyboard layout at TMK Keymap Generator - here we reach a new level of "very":
- the page doesn't know how to handle the german umlauts I need
- the german umlauts are not even listed under the supported labels
- one million dollar question: How do I get my german umlauts into the .eep ?
<-- TL&DR? Here are actual questions - bonus question: due to the umlauts, I have no room for some keys
- so I need extra symbols on Y, X and C (accessible via "Alt")
- how do I get these extra symbols on these keys?
6) Everything else should be piece of cake - except I didn't smolder since... I was 14, I guess (26 years ago)
- needless to say I don't even have smoldering equipment
- but I have the feeling I have enough time to buy one until I need to use it
- I may even by one of these small things for training / testing purposes (e.g. this:
http://bit.ly/2A1SXRj)
Long story short... If you like to see noob stumble through this adventure for the next 6-7 month, I'm all yours!
I could certainly use your help and advice
Best wishes,
Martin