I'm fairly good with a soldering iron, but there's several SMD parts there, that would probably test me a bit. If this was really to appeal to low-end hobbyists

I'm fairly good with a soldering iron, but there's several SMD parts there, that would probably test me a bit. If this was really to appeal to low-end hobbyists, it'd all be through-hole parts. High end hobbyists are already building their own single board computers based on their own designs.