Geo, definitely if you have spare time between job searching, I want to try it :D
I live in Kamakura (near the beach) and have a couple iCE40 8K dev FPGA boards ( http://www.latticesemi.com/en/Products/DevelopmentBoardsAndKits/iCE40HX8KBreakoutBoard.aspx) if you want to borrow one to test. It also has a fully open source synthesis toolchain (reverse engineered bitstream) - http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/ - which is great compared with Xilinx/Altera licensing. In any case, your board is really great work and definitely has a lot of potential. You can email me here: http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01yPoiXxXt6Yjq7D9aF2oJJg==&c=W3CYLO5kNNqFW-xuPJfEMSowC6hKyD1vQZgSGtvw3mU= Thanks, AW