Keebtalk post.
Just finished my latest homebuilt board. 3-D printed case, masonite plates, box navy switches, Akko SA-L keycaps.
For this one, instead of manually hand wiring the entire matrix, I designed that part in KiCAD and sent it off to JLCPCB (minimum order quantity also means I have four more of them with no particular need). I still manually wired it to the raspberry pi pico though. There’s also a new and really user-friendly tool called “Pog” for the Python based KMK firmware. That was really nice.
I'll give it a go someday. I'm in the UK, we don't gave many places to see custom keyboards in person, but I don't imagine it'd be too difficult to find an ortho PCB and a case to mess around with.