Developers can now apply for getting Google’s Project Ara Dev Board by filling the form available at http://www.projectara.com/dev-board-form

According to Google Terms, Developers from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria can not get this Board. And, only one Dev Board is allowed for a company. Applications will be reviewed in stages; the current review period ends on July 17, 2014. The next review period will start on July 18 and end on August 17, 2014. Google plans to ship the dev boards starting in late July, 2014.



Google plus user “Eduardo Ruiz” has shared the below email message he received from Project Ara team.

Dear Ara Module Developer: We are now accepting requests for dev boards that we demo’d at the developer conference back in April. This is FPGA hardware that corresponds to the v0.11 release of the MDK. It is designed to help with prototyping and development of modules for the Ara platform, including modules for the current (first) prize challenge that we formally announced at Google I/O. You may request the developer hardware at http://www.projectara.com/dev-board-form. The first round of applications will be due this Thursday, July 17 2014, 11:59pm Pacific Time. The second round of applications will be due on August 17, 2014. We also anticipate making a new set of dev hardware based on the v0.20 MDK platform (which use ASICs instead of FPGAs for UniPro network processing and free up significant space for developer functionality in the modules) after the second developers conference in November 2014. Best,

Project Ara Team

Project Ara is Google’s module smartphone system which will allow the users to create their custom phones and replace any modules.

Few weeks back, Google showed prototype of Project Ara at Google I/O conference.