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What Is A Sprout Board?
What makes it so special?

The sprout board is a high quality main board that is designed to allow you to simply plug in your Arduino to create a wide verity of high quality practical projects. Ultimately our design goal was for this board to be an experimentations platform that isn’t a lame shield with a difficult form factor. The project platform ready for real use as a step up from the breadboard spaghetti bowl.

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What Can I Make With
A Sprout Board?
Project ideas and source...

The number of applications for your sprout board is very diverse allowing for all sorts of practical applications from automated gardening to our open source server room initiative. As well as a physical board we are building a community of enthusiasts ready to take their arduino projects to the next level and collaboratively share what they know.

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How Can I Buy A Sprout Board Of My Own?
Buy online for fast easy service...

Buying a sprout board is easy from our simple online store. We offer a simple kit as well as some chassis and accessories to get you up and running fast. In addition to our sprout board kits you can also order accessories sensors to extend the capability of your project with ease.

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    Using the new Ethernet Shield - Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:02:45 +0000

    Well it looks like the folks over at arduino.cc decided to redesign the Ethernet shield. We have found that this some compatibility issues with the sprout board. This article shows you how to create a simple ICSP jumper wire and make a slight mod on the Ethernet shield to make it work with the sprout board. Future versions of the sprout board will have this built onboard, but for now this simple hack works quite well.

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    Tinkering authors wanted! - Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:02:36 +0000

    Are you a creative gizmo tinkerer with the ability to do a project from concept to final write up all by yourself? Then we want you! We are looking for motivated people to help create project guides for our new sprout board to share with the world....

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    Win a sprout board! - Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:02:03 +0000

    Have a cool project idea? Want a free sprout board? We are accepting project ideas for how you would use a sprout board. The winner will be decided by the sprout board team and we will feature the winning project here on the sprout board site! So start brain storming what you would use a sprout board for! Entries must be received by Midnight July 15th 2010 at the address below
    Projects(at)sproutboard.com.

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News and Events

30 June 2010
Lots of new guides added!
We have added a bunch of new guides to help you expand what you can do with your sprout board. Check them out!

21 June 2010
How to drive an AC load
In about 10 minutes we will take you through a simple process to control an AC load using the sprout board…

1 June 2010
Open Source Server Room Initiative
The Sprout Board is the center of a move to open source high priced server room monitoring equipment in an effort…

25 May 2010
Sprout Board available for order!
That’s right! The sprout board can be purchased now!