About the Dragonboard™ 410c

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Internet of Things: Setting Up Your DragonBoard™ Development Platform

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University of California San Diego

Internet of Things: Setting Up Your DragonBoard™ Development Platform

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Do you want to develop skills to prototype mobile-enabled products using state-of-the-art technologies? In this course you will build a hardware and software development environment to guide your journey through the Internet of Things specialization courses. We will use the DragonBoard™ 410c single board computer (SBC). This is the first in a series of courses where you will learn both the theory and get the hands-on development practice needed to prototype Internet of Things products. This course is suitable for a broad range of learners. This course is for you if: • You want to develop hands-on experience with mobile technologies and the Internet • You want to pivot your career towards the design and development of Internet of Things enabled products • You are an entrepreneur, innovator or member of a DIY community Learning Goals: After completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Configure at least one integrated development environment (IDE) for developing software. 2. Make use of git, adb and fastboot to flash multiple OS and repair bricked boards. 3. Install Android 5.1 (Lollipop) and Linux based on Ubuntu. 4. Create, compile and run a Hello World program. 5. Describe the DragonBoard™ 410c peripherals, I/O expansion capabilities, Compute (CPU and Graphics) capabilities, and Connectivity capabilities.

From the lesson

Board Bring up

The new and exciting DragonBoard™ 410c is now available! In this module you will get introduced to the new all-in-one board, get an overview of all its amazing features and find out how you can get one yourself. We will then walk you through the registration process, and how to get your board started up for the first time! By the end of this module you will know enough about the DragonBoard™ 410c to begin using it for the fun projects that are to come later in this course and in the rest of the courses in the Internet of Things specialization.

Introduction to Lesson 11:14

About the Dragonboard™ 410c4:16

Important Board Components6:40

Technical Specifications7:07

A look back at Lesson 11:04

Meet the Instructors

Ganz Chockalingam
Principal Engineer
Qualcomm Institute of Calit2, UC, San Diego
Harinath Garudadri
Associate Research Scientist
Qualcomm Institute of Calit2, UC, San Diego

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.

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