My T-Beam arrived in a plastic case. I have experimented with using it as the case for operation during testing.
A couple of observations for TTGO to consider:
Move the antenna to the other or battery side of the board and rotate it 90 degrees. This will make the device slimmer and longer, more like a hand held radio. Even keeping it in the same location but rotating it 90 would make the resulting device narrower and you could then use a cable to position the antenna wherever you’d like.
I took the original case and drilled a few holes. One for each button and usb and one for the antenna. Then I hot glued the display inside so it wouldn’t short out on anything.
You can see that if the antenna were on the opposite side of the board near the + terminal, you could shave 1/2 inch in width, 1/4 inch in height and keep the same length.
