OK here's a full photo set for my latest keyboard, the short-lived Ficherman 0.1. This was a keyboard used with my automation system at my microfiche scanning job at the internet archive.

(I hate photographing shiny PCBs. They make the autofocus of my camera all confuzeled.)

It's the Ficherman 0.1, by me, this year. "Are the trees moving?" is a Dark Souls reference, because I was watching videos on Dark Souls secrets.
The motto for this keyboard:
Feed a man a fiche, you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fiche, you feed him for a lifetime.
The right side: We've got my version of the jwz saying about regexes, but it's about keyboards now, "Keep circulating the tapes" from MST3k, and a quote from Brewster Kahle, head librarian & founder of the internet archive.
the bottom side. There's basically nothing on this side except rubber feet and the raspi pico.
Don't ask who said this, but EVERYTHING NOT SAVED WILL BE LOST.
It's supposed to say "Trans Rights" here but I put the foot too close so it's says "Trans Righ"
This is true.
This is from a tumblr post I made about how souls and frogs are the same thing. I think I enjoy it far more than anyone else, but this is my keyboard so I can put whatever I want.
This is an Outer Wilds quote. If you haven't played it, don't look up anything about it, go play it. It's a story-driven space exploration game that inherits the mantle of Myst and Riven.
The win95 shutdown message.
(Amusingly, the win95 machine I keep on hand has had its shutdown screen modified to be an outer wilds quote instead of this)

Another quote of my own tumblr posts.

The fact there are two 2s is accurate to the tumblr post, btw.

This is a paraphrase of something I've said before. I'm named Turing, so I feel I am allowed to say this with some authority.

Another library-related quote, since I made this thing for use inside a library.

(I was slightly tempted to make the last line read "France Is Bacon", but resisted)

Finally, a Ted Nelson quote from Computer Lib/Dream Machines.

Technologically there's not much fancy about this. It's not a keyboard matrix: It doesn't need to be! we have more GPIO lines than pins/LEDs.

The code running on it is very simple: it watches all the GPIO lines with buttons, debounces them, and sends press/release messages to the PC over serial.

It also listens to the PC for a message to turn the LED on/off.
That doesn't actually work... The LED is either fried or backwards.
The keyswitches are cherry MX greens. Nice and clicky.
It's using relegendable keycaps from a POS keyboard. They're just double-layer keycaps and you can stick paper between the layers.

I didn't get to use this much: My first day with it functional was July 2nd, and the last day I was working at the internet archive was the 8th. I think I worked only one full day between those dates!

But despite not getting to really use it much, it was fun to make, and it worked really well for the project, when I did get to use it.

@foone would it be a useful tool for others in the same position / doing the same general work, or is it one of those super niche things that really only worked for you and the way you were doing things?
@timixretroplays Great question! Sadly, not one I can answer at this point, because of complexities of why I'm no longer doing this job at the internet archive.
@foone I'm sorry to hear this, especially after burbling mild and friendly envy at you about the job. This thread is AMAZING though: thank you so much for it.

@foone I read "regenderable keycaps".

Love the ASCII Table of Genders

@foone Do they happen to have a two-colored version of the lover part of those caps?
Then you could put transparent labels with two different characters on the caps and it would be possible to highlight one of them by changing the color of the backlight.
Would be ideal for switching between keyboard layouts.