camera lens covert is, of course, a must - in fact, it was mentioned in first post

Status update: ~60% (my abstract estimation) of work needed to be done is completed. Thanks to absolutely awesome investors/pre-ordering ones/donors, I was able to aim for the best quality equipment upgrade for CNC milling machine (with adding my whole, humble personal savings, to the pool). Last parts arrived from Asia couple of days ago, and I'm still working on integrating them.

From the "not so great" side of news - personal affairs got me quite occupied lately, so I'm not moving forward as fast, as I would like to. But, I'm still doing whatever I can, and dedication is burning totally, inside me - thanks to fantastic people and their feedback, here.
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Little news on organizational side - wooden variants - mentioned some pages ago, as a possibility - will make it as option, for sure. You wouldn't believe, how pleasant certain types of wood are, for such projects (I'm doing all tests, except final ones, on wood, to save on wasted material costs).

In fact, if You ask me, some exotic's wood cases result in more pleasant (to the touch, and as per stylish look) results, that alu - while still allowing for all goodies, and metal parts for heat dissipation (via contact with.pads for ground plane - N900's heat dissipation is done entirely via ground plane, anyway). +, Believe it or not, good quality wood is super-resistant for "generic" scratches - i.e. ones that appear on everyday use (not during sandpaper/screwdriver/knife tests), and fingertip marks. Which can't be said about alu, even anodized (facture effects help, but still, wood have this special "something).

Of course, it's just personal opinion, and alu remain main focus for this project, but I wouldn't be surprised, if I would choose wooden variant as "main" body for my own device, at the end. Also, it remain viable alternative, in case of signal strength problem being unfixable (highly unlikely, but still - after all, as said, any decrease of signal, in any N900's radio, is totally unacceptable, for scope of this project).