Update - Trying out the Geist Totem again now with new battery and keycaps. Really going to give this a run through its paces because I really want to transition to this as my main board.
It’ll be a process for sure, but the DDC keycaps really do make a difference. I think that once the LDSA keycaps are back in stock, I’ll buy some of those to put on the home row to give the same homing row feel that the Kinesis Advantage had. Otherwise, I’m starting to really love this little board. Oh yeah, I also had a case for the dongle printed in Resin (wish I went with MJF nylon for this as well because I’m really loving the material) - Seeed Xiao BLE Case by VOID | Download free STL model | Printables.com
Buger BBOx60 with center mounting posts removed and a Brass Plate, prelubed Trantek Blacks with condensers and a “SA” kind of profile Pudding-style keycap set i got some time ago. Normally not a fan of RGB but this looks kinda neat on lowest brightness.
Some glamour of my Line Friends board that I just put KeyKobo Cherries on. Shots curtesy of other people with cool cameras and vintages lenses
I really like how the caps came out. Love the re-legenables and the see-through accents like the one I threw on Enter. The set even came with a little gradient thing. I didn’t try it out yet, I am not sure they executed the gradient caps very well. That was the only part I was slight bummed by.
The keycaps on the Brown Feker look like DMK Choco Donuts if you don’t do a double take lolol. Could also possibly be a close clone from the same factory or something but who knows.
I think KKB Cherries is the perfect red set. I do agree the gradient isn’t all that great, but the set colors and accent keys make up for it. I even like the alternate alphas though I didn’t pick them up.
you hear a whisper in your ear. You don’t neeeeed 5 totem builds. Unless you really really want 5 super cool epic configurations that you can rotate through but you didnt hear that from me.
I like this voice. I’m going to listen to this voice.
I have one planned where I want to do another “wireless” build, but with no internal batteries and no fragile power switches. Instead, I want to have them connect to an external battery bank. Wonder if that could manage well over a year of battery life. Why? As much as I love true wireless. I hate the idea of having consumable batteries in a keyboard that aren’t easy to swap out.
Also, want to see if I can find a good way to get white finished MJF PA12 for that build.
Fabrication vendor MOQs are total enablers. I definitely don’t have three nearly identical TKL variants and a “travel” board that’s just like one of my 1800ish boards with the numpad snapped off. Nosiree-bob. Completely sensible decisions on use of time and money over here!
Received a lot of four vintage boards, three of them Alps white. Tai-Hao TH-5539-3 looks to be very close to NOS, but I must have thrown out my last DIN-5 to PS/2 adapter years ago, so a new one is on the way to go with my PS/2 Soarers that simply converts RCtrl into a windows key. Fingers crossed.
The other Alps boards are from Focus. There’s a Focus FK-9000 (edit: FK-5001) with a cut cord, but the built in calculator just needed a new coin cell. I am sure it was part of a corporate write-off, but I like to imagine someone just really wanted their calculator to be more portable. The other one is an FK-6000P (also with cord cut) with a very crusty two-button trackball, and mouse microswitches for the arrow keys . All three boards have double-shot keycaps, and the 6000P is close enough to the 9000 that it could donate a couple of missing function row keys. The 9000 (edit: 5001) will be a cleanup and conversion project, while the 6000P is going to have to be a donor board for something unholy that has yet to make itself entirely clear to me.
The fourth board is not really one I think I can work with. Looks to be a Clare-Pendar Foam & Foil board for a VT100 clone, though quite a weird one (the sliders’ return springs are twinned torsion springs!), and I am not sure what I can really do other than document it for Deskthority and eventually send it to a nice keyboard-farm upstate. I’ll hold onto it for a while though, until I find out if anyone else has a use for it or its parts.
The other one is an FK-6000P (also with cord cut) with a very crusty two-button trackball, and mouse microswitches for the arrow keys 
. All three boards have double-shot keycaps, and the 6000P is close enough to the 9000 that it could donate a couple of missing function row keys. The 
