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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.

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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 21:33

Choosing an operating system4:10

Purchasing your Dragonboard™ 410c2:27

Registering with 96boards1:25

Registering with Qualcomm® Developer Network2:51

A look back at Lesson 21:25

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

It's time to talk to you about the operating systems that

are available to you for your Dragon Board 410 C.

First off, as we've mentioned several times is Android.

And Android is a very special operating system that allows you to

basically develop applications similar to what you would do for

your cell phone or Android tablet.

It's a Linux-based platform for mobile devices.

In order to develop applications or

programs for an Android operating system, you're gonna actually have to get an IDE,

which stands for integrated development environment, I believe.

Yeah, so once you get your IDE, which we will teach you how to do later

on in this course, either Android Studios or Eclipse.

For us personally, we'll be using Android Studios.

You can begin developing for Android.

It is application centric so

you're not really going to be running much hardware off of Android, or traditionally

you would not be running much hardware off of your cell phone, as you know.

But when I say hardware I mean robots and stuff like that.

>> Yeah, but applications can be made and you can still get that kind of stuff done.

It's just not as easy.

>> Yeah, and we are going to show you how to do that anyways, so yeah.

>> Yeah and so my favorite though was Ubuntu.

I like the whole desktop feel a lot more, and so

that's the one that I've currently been spending a lot of time working with.

>> It's Linux software for ARM architecture again, but now you have

a desktop feel, so you'll be able to have file managers and things like that.

You get access the Internet really easily,

which I guess you can from Android probably too.

But I just like the feel of having a mouse and a keyboard, and

being able to program directly onto the board.

With Ubuntu you have no real language restrictions.

They should have C compilers, Java compilers.

I know it's really easy to get those on there if they're not already preinstalled.

Personally I like using Python, and so

I spent a lot of time working on projects with that.

And again, for me personally I find it really easy to use Ubuntu,

to be able to work with a lot of hardware and to access the GPIO really easily.

And so we've taken the time to quickly write some GPIO libraries and

stuff like that so we can very quickly access them through programs.

>> Yeah so I actually wanted to mention that, he reminded me.

One of the big differences between Android and Ubuntu will be the fact that like he

said you can basically program right on your board with Ubuntu.

With Android you're actually gonna be using a computer host or a PC host,

where you write your applications or your programs on your computer,

and then you send them to your board.

As opposed to Ubuntu where you're just literally programming on the board

with a keyboard and mouse, kinda like he has set up here.

>> Idle 3 opened up, and you just type it in there and then you're good.

>> Yeah, I'll have to use a text editor.

So another thing is that

the the Ubuntu software can also be operated by a command line only.

So if you really were savvy with Unix or something like that,

you can just boot right into a command line, no desktop at all.

And basically perform the exact same things that you were doing on the desktop.

There's definitely a lot of versatility with Ubuntu.

Windows 10, it's currently not available right now.

It will be available, and they are going to be having a lot of

programming abilities when this is released for a dev board like this.

You're gonna have access to a dev center,

insider programs that kinda teach you how to begin developing for Windows.

I believe they're kind of starting to push towards that application market,

Windows Store, stuff like that.

So there's gonna be a lot of fun possibilities in the future with Windows

10, especially with a dev board like this, pushing applications out in the market.

Yeah.

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