I wonder if I can find some extra-long n900 sized screws around the house.

EDIT::
I'm sure you've mentioned it, but 23 posts take longer to sift through than asking. What are you using to make these? I'm thinking of saving up for one, I like making things.

Why is Estel banned? o_O

[EDIT]
Never mind, I should use the search.

whaaaaaaat

WTF?, i know i been absent lately because of alot of things, but estel banned???, as far as i can see in posts it's only for 20'ish days but WTF.

hello!

are there some news about the topic?

thanks!

Estel did not respond to my private message, despite having logged in multiple times already.

I suggest others to contact Estel too. Especially the people who've already given him money.

no news???????????????

Just FYI, Estel_ can be found on #maemo on freenode in the event you want to contact him...

any update?
ive been wanting to upgrade my phone

Hello People, and enormously huge excuses for not replying sooner.

I know that I should do it sooner, and for a fact, despite that real
life was *very* absorbing last few months, there is no good excuse for
not contacting - i just *should* have find a piece of spare time, no
matter what, to write at least few words, considering circumstances
(your support for replacement backcover/body project). I can just
apologize, again.

That said, project is alive and I haven't had plans to cancel it, even
for a second. Unfortunately, it was delayed - I got very serious
things to take care of in my personal life, that not only absorbed
every bit and piece of my free time, but also, forced me to quit a job
for few months and live from savings. Fortunately, everything seems to be heading for happy end, so I resumed my normal activities, from job, to having (some) free time to spend on projects.
---

Now, when it comes to project - it had some bad times, even before my
private affairs started. Someone, who promised professional 3D scans
of regular case internals (for motherboard, contacts, functions, etc)
- that would ease work very much - disappeared without any trace. I'm not criticizing here, as I don't know reasons - after all, not so long after, I was MIA too, so he might have no less important things in real life. Peter, if you're still around, don't hesitate to contact me - your help is still welcome.

Anyway, I had no other choice, than reverse-engineer everything on my own. Still, using small bits of free time that I was able to find, I was
(slowly) proceeding - many times, sparks came through motherboard when inserted to prototyped internals (here, half-dead N900's
motherboards, that kind people have send me, helped a much - no living
motherboard got killed in the process of making it ), but slowly,
it took shape.

Now, since few days, I'm test-driving pre-pre-pre-pre-pre alpha
version of case. Externally, it doesn't have any user-interface
functions (aka holes for ports, speakers, or even keyboard -
basically, it doesn't have anything on the outer side, and looks like a
brick of aluminum.

Hoever, inside, it have most shapes required to properly cooperate
with motherboard - ground plane connectors, blockers for
spring-connectors, supports (to avoid bending of MB), and connectors
for antennas (although, currently, anything beside wlan0 is dummy).
Despite usage in different temperature conditions (from regular ~20 C
degrees, to -20 C degrees, outside, before battery decided to shut
down power) and some rough times with it, no sparks, shortcuts, or
connector slipping, finally.
---

Now, I won't hide, that there is still *much* work to be done, and it
will be delayed more, for no doubt. But, slowly, it's taking shape,
and I really hope, that we'll be able to enjoy results in N900's
lifetime (considering, that still no proper replacement for N900 on
horizont - and I mean Jolla here, too - that shouln't be too hard...)
---

Now, a word of warning. While I decided to shake my hand at whole Maemo politics and actively participate in TMO discussions, about projects that interest me, i'm still not sure, if TMO is safe/friendly place for work coordination, anymore.

After all, moderator who broke basic rules - like using anti-spambot one-touch ban and clean against living user (one with positive thanks/posts ratio, too), banning him eternally and deleting all of his contributing posts to TMO, for no real reasons - is still around, probably, feeling more allowed to do whatever he want, than before.

If anyone is interested on background for this whole mess, everything is explained on (long) discussion on mailing list, starting from this entry:
http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/mae...er/005696.html

While one need to filter out some flamewar-like or angry messages, every piece of information is to be found in that mailing-list thread.
---

Now, frankly, I suppose, that most of you don't care - nor do I. If anything pathetic happens again due to rogue moderators or whatever, I'll just give this place a laugh, this time for good, but I won't exit from Maemo, nor this particular project. In case of TMO being unbearable for any constructive thing, I'll set up small independent board, just to keep contact with people interested in this project (and donors, and pre-ordering people, etc). frankly, I planned to do so already, but for obvious reasons (time) decide to scratch it, for now.
---

Apology for long silence, again - it wasn't in my plans, at all, and I'll do my best to keep all of you properly updated on project progress, now.

/Estel

// Edit

As for PM's, excuse no reply, but, during monthly ban, my PM box got full (for obvious reasons). I've cleaned it a little, so it should work again, now.