The Hitchhikers Guide to Venus

Venus is the crossroads of the Solar System. Spacecraft from Earth have used a gravity assist from Venus to reach Jupiter and Saturn and it would be possible to add value to any mission by going via Venus and taking a hitchhiker probe along for the ride to be dropped off at Venus on the way to the main destination. One of the prime aims of the Venus Society is to promote the development of hitchhiker probes as a cost effective way to explore the planet. Beagle 2 was a hitchhiker probe to Mars which failed because of the difficulties of landing on that planet. Landing on Venus is easy and relatively simple probes could make a real contribution to our understanding of the planet. Anyone got any suggestions?