To hell with the budget for now. I would love to learn all this, money can be arranged if I present a proper research proposal (with BOM) to proper authorities

To hell with the budget for now. I would love to learn all this, money can be arranged if I present a proper research proposal (with BOM) to proper authorities (Read my parents). I would have to start from scratch though, all of my experience has been in AVR and avr-gcc. Lets see how all of this works out.