well, there you go

Do they say Gateron on them?

Hey dude, I've dived in on the budget end of the hobby too

All you need is a soldering iron, a computer capable of reading a usb drive and a text editor like notepad. Anything else you can either scrounge or get pretty cheap

I've made myself a macropad that feels very satisfying to type on and am partway through a 40% keyboard.