I've recently taken an interest in electronics and decided I wanted to try my hand at soldering surface-mount devices (SMD) to circuit boards. I've seen many YouTube videos (see links below) on how to do this, but my practical experience has been minuscule, involving only a few single-chip breakout boards.
In order to gain a bit more experience with SMD soldering, I searched Amazon for any SMD practice boards. There aren't many, but there are a few. I selected the Gikfun EK1885 kit (Amazon link), because in addition to being a board to practice on, half of the board actually does something - it uses a timer and a counter chip to make a group of LEDs flash in a simple pattern.