Phew, I'm finally able to post in other places then the n00b forum.

I would be interested in having an assembly company build a few boards for me in the US (sensei's guys?) depending on how much they charge.
it seems like I would be able to assemble my own boards pretty easily either from a kit or from parts ordered from digikey or somewhere like that directly. I've been watching smt soldering tutorials and reading what I can, seems like it's something a home user can handle, although you probably don't want to build too many boards before it becomes tedious.

I guess I better jump on an avalon group buy and try to grab say 64 chips.

Nice work BKK, your efforts are appreciated.