Overall the board as served me quite well, but there is almost always room for improvement. Below are a few changes that would make if I get around to making another revision:
Add a jumper in series to the power LED. When it comes to working with low-power projects and running it off of batteries, the little bitty LED can consume quite a bit of power compared to everything else. One could simply not solder in the LED, but this would be a more flexible solution.
Simply do a power plane for the top layer. A thing that I've ran into when designing the board was having trouble fitting in nice thick power traces for everything. It's perhaps a bit overkill, but why not?
Possibly squeeze in an LDR. I've found it quite useful on my 1284P board, might been worth trying to squeeze it in.
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