I had pretty decent success with the products from KNJN (http://www.knjn.com/ http://www.knjn.com/). It's affiliated with FPGA4Fun (http://www.fpga4fun.com/ htt

I had pretty decent success with the products from KNJN (http://www.knjn.com/ http://www.knjn.com/). It's affiliated with FPGA4Fun (http://www.fpga4fun.com/ http://www.fpga4fun.com/) which will help with the learning. Recently I've been looking at the small, low-cost boards by XESS - http://xess.com/prods/prod048.php http://xess.com/prods/prod048.php Keep in mind that writing logic is quite different from programming. It's quite the mind-shift.