Just do it ;). I don't have a blog post on how I got started, but you gave me the idea that perhaps I should write one. In terms of hardware, I'm using an iCEB

Just do it ;). I don't have a blog post on how I got started, but you gave me the idea that perhaps I should write one. In terms of hardware, I'm using an iCEBreaker dev board [1] which has worked really well (A nice bonus is that the board has a 16MB flash chip, which can be used for storage -- this is what the Minecraft clone uses to load the map and textures from on startup). On the software side, I'm using the open source yosys/nextpnr/icestorm toolchain which is a lot faster than the vendor supplied tools. I mostly figured things out by just trying stuff, so a high iteration speed definitely helped here! [1] https://1bitsquared.com/products/icebreaker https://1bitsquared.com/products/icebreaker