Comment by pmorici

I didn't know much about this stuff either here are some websites I found that were helpful in getting me started.

http://www.sparkfun.com has a lot of cool electronics type stuff to learn with. http://www.batchpcb.com to manufacture custom circuit board designs for cheap (2.50 per/sq in). If you want to design something simple FreePCB is super easy to learn http://www.freepcb.com/

YouTube has a lot of videos on how to solder if that interests you.

For FPGAs http://www.fpga4fun.com/ and http://www.knjn.com/

Other cool hardware related sites... http://www.curiousinventor.com/ http://www.gumstix.com/ http://www.cmucam.org/ http://www.electronics123.com/