Haha... yeah, I don't plan on making any hardware changes at all unless dcb blesses the project with any official hardware changes
All completely the same hardware as it's being produced today. As for the board... WOW! Very cool. Yeah, if you look closely you can see where I hacked up my board and installed the 16x2 LCD in place of the transformer... I dropped the transformer under the board and dremeled-out the area for the LCD, and soldered its pins to the A through N rows of the last column of pins of the breadboard
Very, very easy to wire up that way, no more dicking around with putting the LCD in a convenient place paired with the breadboard. Quite the fun little hack.
Ahh, enough talk, I'd better go get those 16x2 LCD mock-ups off the printer and get crankin' on some UI