Poked around with the design a bit more. Slimmed out the overall "deck" by dropping a row of keys (all the cool cyberdecks have reduced keyboards anyway), and started looking at a way to add some LEDs to make it a bit more visually interesting.

Wasn't sure what the LEDs would look like at first, but my wife suggested to try and recreate the look of the lighted square buttons on the face of my first cyberdeck project, the reComputer 1000. To really make things difficult for myself (remember that diving in the deep end bit from last post?), I decided to use this as an excuse to experiment with putting reverse-mounted LEDs on the back of the board so the substrate acts as a diffuser. It's a common enough trick in the Badgelife world, but not something I've ever attempted personally. Should be interesting.

This updated render is pretty close to what I think the final hardware will look like. Maybe.