If you just want to make "electronic devices" I'd suggest a low-end Arduino device.
For $20 you get something that can turn a relay or program an addressable LED light strip or communicate with the computer in your car. There is an IDE to program it that is not too different from what you use on a regular computer.
There are FPGA devices that can take the place of an Arduino or Raspberry Pi that cost from $50 to $500 that have custom programmable logic instead of a microprocessor.
In the 1970s, Steve Wozinak designed a Pong game programmed in about 40 logic gates that would change the color of the pixel as the beam scanned across the TV.
Today you could connect that $50 FPGA to an HDMI port and make a video game out of logic gates the way Woz did, the tools are specialized compared to normal programming but better than what Woz had to work with.
With a more expensive FPGA you could make something like a Nintendo GameBoy Color by cutting and pasting an open source and/or commercial microprocessor design into the FPGA together with your dream logic.
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Me the hardware I get into is "printing" in that I make some kind of art print every day.
That could be sending shutterfly photos to family, using a receipt printer to print anime art, printing 4x6 cards with information graphics, etc.
I fell into it by chance but understand now that it's a bridge between the world of digital images that I work in and often play in and the world of physical objects, things I can touch and share with people.