Welcome to the place and I hope you find someuseful info here. Enjoy your stay.
Not sure where you are but electronics places like Tandy / Radio Shack often have basic kits for this sort of thing. The kit usually has al that is needed and is normally aimed at novice electronics enthusiasts so the instructions are detailed and complete. Also if you are building a kit and for whatever reason it is not going as it should there is usually a help line / numer which you can call to get it sorted.
Good luck, Cheers , Pete.