I'm about to embark on a prototyping project, and was thinking of dead-bug, but from what I now of surface mount, dead-bug would be ridiculous. So what I have in mind is to take a piece of single-sided laminate (from the elec. store up the street), put it copper down, which would be the ground plane, and on the top, glue the parts down and literally draw the circuit.
So, does anyone have a good search phrase for google, or maybe know off the top of your head where I might get some of the stuff? Is that the sort of thing that general-purpose elec. stores (heat shrink, NTE's, all the neat stuff that RS used to have) would carry?
One caveat - this isn't a hobby project, I'm getting paid, so if I should FOAD and STFW, please keep your reminders gentle. :-)
Thanks, Rich