Just a few dry runs with 40 pin female headers. I set up some extra headers as temporary “jigs” to hold together the basic shape, before I commit to gluing it all together.

I was shocked how the first Sketchup drawings look like the dry run here. It is rare for my designs to look exactly like the finished product. My wife thought it was a trick and that I photoshopped it. Nope, it's real. Sizes are slightly different.

This one was just for fun:

Test build slide show:

2 males, 40 females:

Six more females across hold bottom together:

Flip it over:

Remove males:

Left side:

Six females across will be removed, then I will add two layer edging, and a bottom plate. At first I was thinking crazy glue, but now I'm thinking hot glue.