I'm not sure if you are actually reading anything here or not, but I will say it again... I do not have a lot of vertical space on the board! Also it is completely pointless to hack up USB cables and have the routed and soldered down to a final product. This thing isn't going to look like some high school science project! I even uploaded a picture of one of the boards for reference. I only have about 6 - 8 mm between boards as it is. If you can find me a NANO compatible board with a header for the USB as well as the I/O pins, that would be an option then, because I can do short "Transistor type sockets" to plug them in, but until than, I need to do it this way... With a quick google search, nothing of the sort came up...