OLD PROJECT (not mine) BUT BUILDING IT!!!!

quick disclaimer: this is my friends maximilians @Lumethra ’s project that he designed and we are now building together; We are building 2 pieces of it, one for him and one for a friend!

AHHHHHHH (the first soldering)

this was basically a teamwork between us two, him prepering, me putting the hotswapsockets in, him sanaty checking my work (image 4). This was a slight pain, but really doable (ignoring the fact he missed a ground connection in the pcb we had to wire manually)

less AHHH (for me)

maxi was doing some fixing/installing of the firmware he coded for the thing we just soldered together, he also put in the keycaps. He himself said that the firmware is very buggy but works, even the auth with the framework fingerprint sensor he planed for this project;
one quote:

never change a running system

AHHHH (for me)

while he was doing that (after like 20 min) i thought id optimise our workflow by heading downstairs and soldering the second of 2 keyboards. I was down there for 1h30min alone, with my headphones, they screamed a mix of katy perry, radiohead, linkin park and german rap into my ears, letting me completely focus on soldering (the first image shows me in the basement after like 70 min)

the only big mistake

while being so focused (frfr) i soldered the hotswapsocket for the backspace key in the wrong way, without noticing this became later called the ### forwoardtime ### (which later let us to resolder that piece while being only held alive by 2 energy drinks and no sleep at all making it a backspace again (yeee).

the last thing left was testing both keyboards (ofc without keycaps bc why would we)

(thats image 2)
and everything worked out fine after the backspace was fixed.

So we can finally say that Maxi and a friend of ours (@Chroma) have a custom keyboard designed by maxi (and the case by chroma) and built by sleepdeprived us.