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Nerdy craftsmen, check this out: http://www.raspberrypi.org/
These come "bare" i.e.: not cased. I think there is a nice opp here for a secondary market milled alu/wood/steel case (or whatever material).
I am getting a couple of the Raspberry Pi and I would buy a nice case in a heartbeat.
N.B.: Bonus geeky relevant William Gibson excerpt:
"It started with a woman who was an interface designer,’ Chia said, glad to change the subject. ‘Her husband was a jeweller, and he’d died of that nerve-attentuation thing, before they saw how to fix it. But he’d been a big green, too, and he hated the way consumer electronics were made, a couple of little chips and boards inside these plastic shells. The shells were just point-of-purchase eye-candy, he said, made to wind up in the landfill if nobody recycled it, and usually nobody did.
So, before he got sick, he used to tear up her hardware, the designer’s and put the real parts into cases he’d made in his shop. Say he’d make a solid bronze case for a mini disk unit, ebony inlays, carve the central surfaces out of fossil ivory, turquoise, rock crystal. It weighed more, sure, but it turned out a lot of people liked that, like they had their music or their memory, whatever, in something that felt like it was there….
'And people liked touching all that stuff: metal, a smooth stone…. And once you had the case, when the manufacturer brought out a new model, well, if the electronics were any better, you just pulled the old ones out and put the new ones in your case. So you still had the same object, just with better functions….
And it turned out some people liked that too, liked it a lot. He started getting commissions to make these things. One of the first was for a keyboard, and the keys were cut from the keys of an old piano, with the numbers and letters in silver."
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You know what, I have some 24 mm/24 mm straps (lug width/buckle size) lying around that I've made that have been used or have some blemishes or other minor flaws (definitely still usable) that I'd be happy to send out if anyones interested if you just cover the shipping costs. Buckles not included… Pm me if you're interested.
(have made a matching wallet and iphone case.. 
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