One of my frequent questions to self these days is, can we put an Ubo in it?

Among the great things that come from working at a co-working space dedicated to hardware start-ups, are some of the great people and projects that just happen to be your neighbors. Noel here created makeboomboxes.com and we've been kicking around the idea of "Ubo-izing" it. So an exploration to go from aluminum to wood is underway.

I look forward to adding another progress update soon, and in the mean time I wanted to pass along something fresh off the desk. We are playing with making the board more flexible, by extending the 40-pin GPIO header with a flex cable adapter starting with a Adafruit FPC adapter and 20cm cable. Here's the first proof of concept test to let us put the display and buttons on top of the boombox, and then mount the pi out of the way elsewhere on the inside.

I think this looks promising enough to say "Yes", I will continue. This will still require making a custom cable to convert the 2x8 header coming back off the top board to a 3.5mm stereo audio connection and a GPIO to re-connect the power going to the fan.