Here's where we stand -
John has the new design pretty much developed and ready to prototype. We ran into a hitch in that the chip he wants to use for USB seemed to be out of stock everywhere. He pursued that before going forward and it now looks like there are plenty, but everyone in the U.S. is temporarily out of stock. So it will be a couple of weeks before we can have the new prototype board manufactured.
As to price, that is still up in the air until we have those boards made. There are also two possible scenarios in terms of how it is packaged that could make a big difference in the price. We won't know which version we will be selling until we hear the prototype board.