I am only half way through it, but you get a lattice icestick for less than $30 and open source tools. I've started the hackaday.io bootcamps which so far have been really good.
They had a chat with the guy who wrote them a few weeks ago and there are more coming. Very accessible and you don't have to use the icestick very much -- most of it is done with free tools.
https://hackaday.io/list/160076-fpga-tutorials
They had a chat with the guy who wrote them a few weeks ago and there are more coming. Very accessible and you don't have to use the icestick very much -- most of it is done with free tools.