I don’t know of anyone who funds this but there are tons of tutorials on the net
Which is the way I learnt most of what I know It’s simply pick out the best of these Do the odd job here and there hopefully for some extra money and essentially fund this yourselves
Sorry I cant give you any real pointers into how you achieve this and keep up with all the changes
Difficult I know just how hard this is Terrible when uyou consider just how many embedded designers programmers they want Not much help at times but dont be put off by this
Here is one such pointer to get you started
http://www.ladyada.net/learn/breakoutplus/ftdifriend.html