I recently got the Audeze Maxwell wireless headset and noticed that the usb c dongle it uses fits inside of the expansion card slot, it just happens to stick out a little bit. I thought some of you may find this interesting/useful.
Part of me wonders if there’s a way to shrink the length down a little bit and stick it into a 3D printed expansion card. Probably not… but the chance isn’t quite 0.
That’s quite the handy image you had on standby! It does look like you’re right though, bummer. I’m still happy it fits as well as it does though.
The FCC has internal photos of most devices that transmit wireless signals and are certified for the US.
I just Googled “audeze maxwell fccid” and this was the first result (one of the links on that page is called “Internal Photos” and it opens a PDF with a bunch of internal photos of both the headset and the receiver). (That link is to fcc.report, which is a site that provides an easier interface to view certifications, fccid.io is another site that I like for that)
Well that’s a handy thing to know! And here I was planning to buy another one to rip open.
I wonder what this component is, it seems to be the only thing in the way.
That’s the antenna!
So… optional? 
/s
It could potentially be moved though
My experience with PCB’s is rather limited, and I have no idea how realistic it would be to remount the antenna to an exposed trace… or how to expose the trace.
Antennas are also magic so it’s pretty easy to mess stuff up but it could be possible.
On the exposing the trace bit, the answer is a somewhat careful application of violence
From my limited understanding of RF circuitry I don’t think you could move the antenna on the pcb. Notice how there’s no copper plane under the antenna? Antennas need that space to work properly. Even rotating the antenna 90 degrees to save a few mm probably wouldn’t allow the antenna the space it needs.
