This workshop is essentially a secret introduction to low-level FPGA programming, using the excuse of building simple synthesizers / noisemakers. We'll be building up two demo projects that hopefully also inspire you to take them and run with them.
There are two cumulative projects here: 0 and 1. :) The first gets your feet wet in Verilog in the friendliest way possible, while the second actually makes something cool with it.
We'll be handing out the toolchain on a flash drive in the workshop, but it's also available here. The short version of the install directions are unzip the binary and add the directory it creates to your path. It's cross-platform, and we'll be adventuring through installing it on whatever OS together.
There are tons of good resources out there for beginning Verilog. I'll list some of them here.