I honestly need ~5 of these. But the sequel product might suit my use case even better.

Wondering if I can make this cheaper.

Merge some of the parts together into a single piece. Instead of the Power Hat and battery I could maybe just squeeze a commercial Power Bank inside.

The sequel product does indeed look pretty rad:

https://www.typeframe.net/docs/ps-85

The keycaps are the semiotic iconography designs created for Alien (1979):

https://wharferj.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/ron-cobbs-alien-se...

…not that anyone here didn’t already know that, I’m guessing!