As I mentioned in my original project description, I decided I couldn't buy my own nrf24 modules and layout a custom board because it would cost significantly more money ontop of being quite a hassle. I have recently done some thinking about it and found it might be easier to make a custom board that holds the uC for at least as much as it costs to buy, but that would give the advantage of much more control and reduce the size considerably. I'm looking into it now. I laid out a pcb that uses a salvaged atmega328p in a the TQFP package size and will be making a test run soon.