I think selling DIY kits would come as a great benefit for newcomers since I personally found that building miners like the nanofuries taught me a lot about soldering and really got me into this bitcoin stuff. Can't wait to see what the product will look like.
While I am NOT sidehack, I would be well and truly surprised if he send out a "kit" of parts that need to be soldered in any way shape or form. As I understand it, the BM1384 ASIC is
VERY tricky part to get correctly soldered down. Read up on "Ball Grid Array" for more details. I expect your work will be associated with astuff mostly external to what he supplies (USB hub, some kind of PC, etc).