I just received Travis Goodspeed's GoodFET board [1] in the mail this week. I have ordered the requisite parts to populate it, have practiced some drag soldering for the SMT parts, and hopefully later on this week I can assemble it. Let's see how bad I butcher it...
Update:
Pretty bad, as it turns out. I was sloppy with my solder braid and accidentally lifted several pads on the FTDI chip. However, I did place the MSP430 chip nicely in place. So a quasi-expensive lesson, but one that I definitely learned from. I feel pretty confident that I can handle TSSOP scaled SMT work now, even if it may not be pretty.
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[1] - http://goodfet.sourceforge.net/
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