Received my Z-Wave chip & Enclosure - Surely I'm doing something wrong here...

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Figured i'd show my solution to the Z-Wave module not fitting in the Pine64 case. Of course as usual for me I did not think to take any pictures till it was done, but it was pretty straight forward so not too hard to figure out what I did.

First was the Pine64 case top, I cut out a couple ribs to see how much extra clearance that gave.

Then the tricky part, first I desoldered the pins from the Z-Wave module.

Then on the the adapter I removed the plastic from those pins and straightened the pins out.

Then put the Z-Wave module down over those pins, soldered it together, them cut off the excess pin length

http://imgur.com/sj5a9t8

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So it just barely fits, but it works.

It was definitely not easy to desolder and solder something that small for me, as I do not have much experience soldering. But it worked and I'm happy it fits in the case now.