This way lies madness.
I’ve had a work in progress pedal board (for home use) on the go for years. Planned around switchable loop order, mono (guitar in) and stereo fx (insert in for synths), midi controllable pedals with presets. Home made wooden board and a bag of yet to be united audio cable and jacks. It slowly adds up to flagship synth money.
I concur with the Strymon power supply suggestion above. There’s other good stuff but being able to add these in series is worth it because you will always need more power than you think.
Midi can be a real head scratcher with the different implementations. Morningstar Engineering also make a midi box with internal dipswitches to change each port between different standards. These almost always use trs plugs for midi for pedals, but then a lot also have 5-pin DIN so it can be tricky getting that balance right depending on your pedals chosen.
I think you need a lot of experience to plan and execute a pedal board right first time. There’s a ton of detail to take into account even if you’re not going for perfect cable management and super tight installation.
My suggestion would be to go into it expecting it to be iterative, find the cheapest way you can to stop your pedals moving all over the place as you experiment. Once you’ve happy then look at making it a bit more permanent.
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