Cubieboard5/Cubietruck Plus Black Metal Case

Getting the antenna to work with this case involves tearing a ceramic antenna off the board, as well as a solder job. There isnt a lot of room for tolerance in this case, so you cant just fix your mistakes with a few globs of silver solder. Also, once you glue the front panel down I'm not sure how one could get back to the board. The case looks cool and certainly keeps the board running cool, but ultimately came across as a little underwhelming.

This is a great case. It's very sturdy and easy to assemble, for the most part. It fits the CubieTruck Plus board perfectly. The rubber feet keep it from sliding around. It's got mounting holes on the bottom, if you're interested in securing it to a surface. All the buttons are accessible. The LEDs look nice through the plastic LED windows.The only downside was a complete lack of instructions. For everything except the antenna, this didn't matter because it was very obvious how to put it together. I am not using the antenna, so I didn't add it. But just note that I couldn't see how the antenna is to be attached to the board. If anyone knows how this is attached please reply to my review or post a review explaining it. Attaching the antenna to the case is easy. But there's a wire coming from it that's got a tiny WiFi antenna plug at the end which is supposed to plug into to the board. There is NO antenna jack on my board. The case comes with the a tiny WiFi antenna jack, as a separate piece, which I guess is to be attached to the board somehow. But I have no idea how to attach the jack. I just don't see any obvious way to attach it to the board.I thought about reducing my rating to 4 stars because there's no instructions on how to attach the antenna to the board, but since I don't use WiFi, I don't really care. The case looks awesome and works well for my purposes. I am using Ethernet and not WiFi, and the WiFi works great as is without an antenna attached. But if you absolutely need the antenna attached, you're going to have to figure out how it's attached on your own.The main body is solid metal, and not easily damaged. I really like the durability of the case. The case is essentially a large heat sink. The heat sink design looks cool in my opinion. My CubieTruck Plus never gets hot, but I'm using it stand alone. If you had an SSD in the case along with the CubieTruck Plus, the SSD would probably generate some heat, and so the heat sink design is good for that situation, so you won't need a fan, which is great.