Today marks a true milestone for this project; I was able to plug in the keyboard, type anywhere, and get a spooky response typed back to me. That's was the goal of the project, and it took a while of designing and soldering and CircuitPython to get it to happen, but today it finally did.

The coding was successful in big thanks to @Steph who helped me through the emotional hurdles of troubleshooting and file management. I am really pleased that the hardware was all correct so the software part could work so seamlessly. 

The next steps are prompt refinement, posting the code, and building a case, probably out of wood. But tonight I celebrate being able to type to the goblins and ghosts of the AI world at will.