I'm afraid I have to agree, it's not pretty, in fact it's actually probably a bit dangerous to have all those chips exposed.
Not really sure where Jen's is going with this product, he's normally pretty much spot on with his hardware.
I'm not a 500 owner but if I was I'd be after an internal design, either an FPGA based solution or an 030 and something with at least 8 MB RAM.
