I laid into the little TI machine and quickly excised it's printy-printy bits, it's thinky-thinky bits, kept it's switchy-blinky bits, and was pleased to find that the keyboard was connected via a simple connector similar to what most hobby electronics with a normal through-hole pin pitch use. I quickly wired it up with a rainbow of jumpers to a Teensy LC I had kicking around and began bugging some old friends who have far more familiarity with the mechanical keyboard scene than me.