xro, to mechanicalkeyboards
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I did it ... 😊 I could not leave it be...
I ordered custom printed from WASD for my customized showing the full layout. 😅 Plus the keyboards first FN-layer.

They arrived .. today 😀 and they are beautiful. Came out much nicer and less chaotic than I feared. Even though , chaosknot and fairydust-rocket are part of the design 😁

On top of that, I added o-rings for a softer key-press bottom-out.

keycap design, remix at will: https://github.com/btittelbach/custom_printed_keycaps/tree/main

The photo shows a angled closeup of xro's custom Chrumm Keyboard with newly added custom printed keycaps. The chaos knot is used as symbol for "Alt" and fairy-dust is used as symbol for "Enter" while a gamecontroller is used as symbol for "Ctrl"
the image that was submitted to WASD for printing

xro, to diy
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Finally finished my second 😃 🎉

This version features -12° backwards tilt instead of -3° and is thus a bit higher.

It also features 20° split angle instead of 12°, which feels much better. On the MS Ergonomic keyboard, which seems to also have only 12°, I actually also used an wider arm angle so so that finger movement is more isometric over the diagonally arranged keys.

The body was printed with resin and the threading hole diameter needed to be increased for glueing.

Collage of three photos of my second chrumm keyboard. Assembly in progress. Top photo show the underside of the body with Cherry Ergo Clear keys installed. Middle photo shows the added PCB and cables. Lower photo shows the fully assembled body.
Collage of photos of chrumm keyboard assembly. Top image shows assembled keyboard with only a few keycaps still missing. The Cherry Ergo Clear Keys are still visible The lower image shows the finished keyboard with Evangelion keycaps.

xro, to diy
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The path to a better(?) parametrically generated is fraught with failed s. 😅

On the FFF side, 3 prints with 3 filaments failed, before I could pin down the reason for it (all our filaments needed drying)

On the resin side, 1 print had the wrong parameters and 2 prints with high clarity resin bent away from the support structure and thus assembling became inviable. Also I further destroyed one of those while trying to fit a threaded inset into it. 😅

Collage of failed resin print with black ABS like resin. Good thing it failed, because it also showed me that I would have to order new PCBs for these angles.
Collage of 3 failed FFF prints. Materials used were PETG, Meta PLA and GreenTecPro. All prints have a lot of stringing and uneven surfaces due to having drawn too much moisture from the air.

xro, to keyboard
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Built myself a last week in standard configuration. (chrumm is actually a very cool parametric STL and PCB keyboard generator)

The goal was to see how I would do with isometric aligned keys.

So far, my experience has been great. No problem with the rectilinear layout per se.

The main annoyances so far focused on the missing F-key-row, the two missing keys on the left half that I need regularly and having to type '6' with the right hand instead of the left.

closeup of chrumm keyboard PCB fitted into 3D printed body with soldered keys.
assembled chrumm keyboard without keycaps
finished Chrumm Keyboard next to a MS Natural Keyboard 4000

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