[abyagowi]

Of course we are not going to build the card in the lab with assembling SMD parts. This was more a way to explain that building such a card should not be out of access for anyone

[myself248]

I mean, you can buy a syringe of solder paste for thirty bucks and do the reflow in a toaster oven. Anyone not doing it simply isn't trying.

[abyagowi]

You are right. This sentence was not supposed to be a literal description of what is the best way to build the card. It was more referring to the fact the building this card is not that hard since the main goal for this project was to liberate the time appliances from being a closed source box.