One of the biggest difficulties I've experienced so far while working on this project, has been the hardware hack which is needed in order to remove some of the ports from the "Pi3". I have some experience soldering very tiny wires to almost unreachable places, but desoldering was completely new to me. I had a good idea of how I was supposed to remove the header and when the time do so came, It turned out to be quite easy, a long and boring easy process with some hiccups along the way. When the time for desoldering the Ethernet and USB ports came, that's when I felt totally lost. The only tools I had were a cheap soldering iron and some desoldering wick, when I realized these tool were not enough, I bought a manual desoldering pump, thinking it would easily get the job done but apparently the problem ware'nt the "cheap tools" I had but the instead, the problem was my lack of knowledge and skill I needed to achieve a result as clean as this:

Luckily, I knew the person who could, effortlessly, get the job done in a matter of minutes. I'm talking about my uncle Adan. He's a very experienced electrical engineer who has been messing with electronics for most of his life. In the following video you can see him using his custome built desoldering iron/pump. Hope you enjoy watching the video as much as I did in person.

As you can see, the ports came out very clean, he did a very professional job indeed and I'm very happy he had the time to help me with it. Now I can finally move on to the next step of this project