Sorry, I missed the original post. Let me take a stab at some questions.

I have been designing and building my own microcontroller boards for over 15 years as a hobby.
Design capture with tinycad. tinycad.com.PCB design with frepcb. freepcb.com.PCB manufacture with oshpark.com.  Decent price, not too slow.
I would stay away from the smaller gauge parts unless you like to work with microscopes.  Solder paste is difficult without a solder mask, just use 30 ga solder and the smallest solder iron tip you can find.
Sparkfun.com has lots of parts, breakout boards, and tutorials.

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    On Saturday, February 1, 2020, 2:18:46 PM CST, Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote:  
 
 Which is used when soldering on SURFACE MOUNT COMPONENTS or SMCs which is the very thing I asked you about and you refused to answer.



> On Jan 31, 2020, at 11:55 PM, Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote:
> 
> I learned more about the new "Solder Pastes" today. DigiKey has a nice tutorial from "Locktite." And "Adafruit" has a little infosheet if you follow the DigiKey links.
> 
> Maybe you should learn about it, too.
> 
> Iznogoud wrote:
>> Let's not make a fuss of this, but I am with Ryan. The idea is that there may
>> be better ways to do what you want, and that is why question were asked.
>> 
>> I went back to the obvious and searched google:
>> https://www.thomasnet.com/minnesota/soldering-services-76361203-1.html
>> 
>> Perhaps you can find an individual to do it through a craigslist.org posting.
>> 
>> Sounds like you have exhausted the info offered on this list, Rick.
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