Vintage Chumby Clock Radio

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I've been eager to do a case modded Chumby for quite some time now. I bought the Chumby One for $50 from Woot a long while ago and started it up once before tearing it apart. It sat in that state for a bit, then I purchased the radio off eBay. Luckily, the clock opening was close to the right size for the Chumby screen. I put it on hold until I got my Makerbot. The radio and clock internals are mounted on a removable chassis held into the body by 2 screws; I decided to use this same basic idea for my Chumby mod because I didn't want to permanently modify the radio. The base plate is a piece of aluminum sheet, and the various components are riveted in place. All the Chumby components are held in place with the screws that originally held them together. Problems/Future Plans: One of the knobs from the radio wasn't reused (under the screen), this might get turned into a power button. The screen holder back plate had to be bent a bit to work. (I also didn't want to print another screen holder.) Make a back cover. Make a cover to hide the gap around the screen. There was no other way to attach the screen, so the holder is hot glued onto the case, but this is easily removed. Some Chumby apps are no longer supported, a big example being Twitter. *I broke the microphone connector and may fix it and add this back later.