> My original plan had been to use their standard 1U folded sheet metal design, but I discovered too late, after boards were ordered, that it wasn’t going to work due to the 5mm corner mounting holes being inside the keepout area for the rear bend.

I wonder if a less annoying solution would have been to omit the mounting holes and then drill and tap them after the fact, possibly at a slight angle if the metal is out of plane there.

The "root canal" side quest was definitely something. Kudos to author

This is super impressive. Additionally, I had never heard about ngscopeclient before. Amazingly cool software!

This is very impressive.

Pretty epic. A very impressive case of building one's own tools, or, rather, a one-off tool that seems to do a simple thing. The most impressive aspect is, of course, handling various issues that normally would require making a new PCB, but the author never retreated.