fitting the dna in the base is not a problem, you can do it either facing down or facing forward, either way you will have to fold the screen over the board and honestly the difference in space from one orientation to the other won't even be that big, the shark I think has the board on one side and the screen is folded 90* to face the bottom cap but once you fold the whole thing over onto itself the difference is small. in this case I would suggest doing it with the screen facing forward not down because forward will result in a stronger base. with it facing down the 4 corners of the board get dangerously close to the outer edges and would make 4 weak spots, it would be fine for a metal base but if you're doing a wood base then facing forward may be better I took a shot both ways for you
the biggest problem putting this in the dibi has nothing to do with fitting it into the base or even dealing with the buttons, that's the easy part, more difficult will be passing extra wires top to bottom in the dibi and then the hardest part of all will be doing all this and maintaining the quick release of the head necessary for juice and battery access. that's really the whole challenge, dealing with the removable head and having it make the fire button and atty contacts and battery contact all at the same time and reliably too, everything else is easy
honestly for the amount of work it'll take to put it in the dibi I may just instead build another whole mod that's more accommodating to the dna. I do love a good challenge and I don't doubt I can do it here, but for all the work it'll take I may just add a little more work and build another whole mod, then instead of doing all the work to still just have one mod when I'm done I'd have 2
the dibi is pretty good as a mech really and I do appreciate the dibi design that pete has done here, wouldn't be the worse thing to keep it as a mech too... still haven't made a definite decision tbh 


the biggest problem putting this in the dibi has nothing to do with fitting it into the base or even dealing with the buttons, that's the easy part, more difficult will be passing extra wires top to bottom in the dibi and then the hardest part of all will be doing all this and maintaining the quick release of the head necessary for juice and battery access. that's really the whole challenge, dealing with the removable head and having it make the fire button and atty contacts and battery contact all at the same time and reliably too, everything else is easy
honestly for the amount of work it'll take to put it in the dibi I may just instead build another whole mod that's more accommodating to the dna. I do love a good challenge and I don't doubt I can do it here, but for all the work it'll take I may just add a little more work and build another whole mod, then instead of doing all the work to still just have one mod when I'm done I'd have 2