The 1.4 is the current version. You can see instructions on how to put it together and closeup pictures at [
reprap.org]
It's very handy when you're doing things with a whole bunch of wires as you just screw them down and if you need to move them, just unscrew and rewire. I understand that putting wires directly into the Ardunio board is assumed to be a more permanent thing.
A quick changelog compiled from the different versions of these instructions is:
- Version 1.0 didn't work properly
- Version 1.1
* Added ground plane.
* Added 3rd row of screw terminals (w/ lots of power outputs)
* Added reset button.
* Moved D0/D1 back to main screw terminal.
* Resized board slightly.
- Version 1.2 ????
- Version 1.3 adds an extra row of power/ground screw terminals.
- Version 1.4 fixes a potential short problem, and adds additional female headers to allow shield stacking.