What if you want to experiment with Boolean gates and chips? What if you would like to build your own digital devices? Here is a graphical tutorial describes how you can build digital logic circuits using 7400 series TTL gates.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/digital-electronics.htm
Shows how to implement a design using Altera's tools.
http://splish.ee.byu.edu/tutorials/altera/altera.html
DK-01 Flex 10K10 design kit.
http://www.leonheller.com/lfh.html
List of boards for FPGA development.
http://www.aufzu.de/FPGA/boards.html
Daughter board for ARM's evaluator-7T board with Xilinx Spartan2 FPGA, SDRAM and ethernet port. Forms a low-cost, compact development platform for embedded software and ASIC/FPGA cores.
http://www.sweeneydesign.co.uk/e7tdboard.htm
General purpose computer board with a microcontroller and an FPGA.
http://www.sci.fi/~cubase/board.html
Adrian Thompson does Research on Evolvable Hardware.
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianth/ade.html
http://www.twysted-pair.com/74lsxx.htm