[sdiy] your opinion on smd dev pcbs

[wayfar]

Getting into the computer engineering side of life one of the more 
expensive challenges I was faced with was finding surfacemount pcbs to 
use modern chips.

Ex. theres vectorboard, which is overpriced imho, and doesn't even give 
you much in the way of decoupling pads or helpfull connectors to run to 
breadboards ect.
Then theres schmart board, which is a little better, but still kind of 
tricky and fairly expensive. I can get custom pcbs done but the setup is 
usually at least $50+, and on the diy front I don't like having ethant 
chemicals around, (plus no soldermask is a bummer).

So I was thinking of making cheaper dev pcbs for surface mount chips 
that had chip specific pads and a helpfull connector for a ribbon cable 
ect. Like say pcbs for 5-10$ that had everything for a dspic or then an 
altera board one ect.

Would anyone be interested in purchasing something like that? Kind of 
like a less costly more cpu friendly / easier to use vectorboard / 
schmart board for projects?

I figure the most popular micros people are using would be between / 
altera / xilinx / microchip / zilog / atmel / silicon labs / lattice / 
freescale / maby some ti stuff ect.

What are your thoughts, or what kind of dev pcb do you wish you could 
just order for surface mount prototyping for under $10 ect.

Do you know of any company thats already doing this?

Thanks,
x|k