Hi Steve, thank you for the comments. We cut the cables for aesthetics, so the cables don’t get in the way giving a better presentation. It was a pain but the final result worth it.
We just made 15 of these boards (hand made) for an Arduino Introduction workshop. I even try desoldering the connectors and solder them in the back, but it was to much hassle. We love for all the Grove sensor to come this way and when that happen we will adapt this board and may be make a better one. We were thinking to make a board that snaps with magnets instead of conectors, but this will require a radical change in the Grove sensor and in our board 