Exactly wanted to try PCB design myself and not build the „classic“ 3x3 macropad. Played around with KLE and I really wanted to integrate a ISO enter. Everything else fell kind of into place,the first design featured a 2U spacebar but I didn’t want to be stuck on that size. I also wanted uniform sides, that’s where the LEDs came in then.
Case design was my pain point on the project, I still didn’t really figure out the best way to use a export of the PCB for that. KiCad is finished since a few month, case took much longer now to complete. But that’s also with a lot of frustration breaks in between. The meetup last week finally gave me the deadline to finish this, at least for the hardware side.
KLE to the board: Memes and meme boards - #8 by exen904