We just wanted to take a chance today to get you guys introduced to the board, and we want to talk about some of its good components, and also kind of give you an idea of what kinds of the things you can do with the DragonBoard 410c. >> Like he said, we'd like to talk to you about some of the cool features on the board. Starting off with the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 400 series processor. Right out of the box we noticed immediately when we plugged it in for the first time, how fast this processor really is. Running Android, Unbuntu, everything just ran flawlessly, and you'll actually notice as we go through a lot of our projects in this course it's able to handle it just perfectly. Another cool thing about this board is the connectivity. So, we have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS built in, right into the board. So unlike other boards on the market, you have to waste a USB slot on a Dongle or something like that, just to get connected to the internet whereas this one just has a built-in. We had no problems with it and it's actually a really cool feature. Another thing is just it's out of the box, ready to program. So if you prefer programming in Android, Java, throw on the Android operating system and get Android Studio. Start making your first application. If you feel like doing C or Python, throw on Ubuntu operating system, and get going with that. We will throughout this course show you how to do both methods or both languages and have some fun with that. >> It's also important to note that the board is compliant with 96Boards Consumer Edition specification. >> So if you have any ribbon cables or shields or something like that you purchased for another board, they should be compatible with this one. This board has been just a great product, and it's been really ideal for use with embedded systems. It's given us a lot of inspiration for future projects. We're looking at creating an internet of things project. And for those of you who don't know what that means it's basically what we're going to use the DragonBoard as kind of a central hub, or like a brain of the system, and we'll be able to use it to control a whole lot of other little things. In the sense that, you know, personally I wanted to be able to use the board to, for my phone, trigger an application that could open a door or turn on a light or turn on my television, kinda things like that. And so one of our future projects we'll have, in course three, we'll actually gonna be making a bunch of little projects, and then later on connect them all together into one central thing. And so they'll all work together and should be a lot of fun. >> Yeah, we're gonna walk you through that process. It's gonna be a lot of fun, yeah. On that same note, we'd like to talk to you about some of the cool things you can actually do with this board. Especially when it comes to internet of things. You have robotics, of course robotics. I mean we're talking about an all in one board with a very powerful processor and GPIO interfaces. So. You're gonna be able to manipulate all sorts of cool robotics like projects. You can run cameras create medical devices and we've even been told you can make vending machines, so. [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] Yeah. >> We won't be doing that, but it sounds like a lot of fun, so you know, if that's what you'd like to do, go for it. Yeah, and there's all kinds of fun things you can use this for and a lot of other bigger, larger applications. For example, if you wanted to make a smart building or a smart home. Or if you wanted to set up a system with solar panels. Something kind of like a project me and him worked on before where you use the board as a central hub to be able to control a lot of different like sensors and voltages and things like that. There's also uses in making LED signs so you can have those big boards of LEDs and get it to display messages. We'll be working out the small scale version of that later on in course three but there's so many applications for this. The options are endless. You can do almost anything with it. >> When he talks about smart buildings, there's a lot of stuff on the market right now where you can just go buy a device and just put it into your house and start working, but I mean where's the fun in that? We're going to show you how to build it yourself. We look forward to that.