Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Qualcomm Celebrates Three Years of DragonBoard 410c at Maker Faire”.
Hey i’m mike cenice executive editor for make magazine and we’re here at maker faire bay area 2018., i’m at the qualcomm booth. This is one of my favorite sponsors. They bring uh incredible booth every year and uh. This is a actually a very exciting year because it’s the third year of the dragon board 410c, which launched here at maker faire at maker faire in 2015. So it’s really great to be back here again and to be celebrating that anniversary.
So tell me: how has the dragon board evolved over these last three years? Well, when you think of just the expandability of the dragon board, it’s been wonderful to see the ecosystem of hardware and the ad on shields that have been commercialized. So that’s actually something that we’re displaying over here is a variety of those boards, one of the beauties of the dragon board. It’S compliant with that 96boards.org specification, so a very standard specification and lots of ways to expand it, yeah very cool and then also uh. There’S a new uh new developer action happening all the time right, incredible, developer action very inspiring, we’re very proud on developer.qualcom.com that we’ve got over 80 projects from the community that have been submitted.
So not only do you have ingredients to build stuff yourself. You’Ve got a lot of instruction and inspiration. That’S there online, that’s awesome and speaking of projects uh, you guys have a lot of cool projects here at your booth, absolutely so maker faire. We we were inspired to play so um this year.
We’Ve got a booth filled. Full of games so here we’ve got an actual artificial intelligence game. So this is a dance game by 10 cent and they took our machine learning and computer vision, algorithms to optimize that game and be able to track everything that you’re doing on device.
So very very cool thing that we’re showing off there and, of course, on the dragon board. We’Ve got our breaker ball. That is a scratch based program.
So hopefully, a lot of the kids coming into the booth will recognize that from their classes, as well as a lovely, retro, arcade game that is running there. So four player contests that we’ve been hosting here in the booth. That’S great a lot of activities for a lot of uh people to do different things to you, the flexibility of the of the board.
It’S you know, it’s a powerful board and uh. You can do a lot with it yeah you should know you had to create something with it, so i actually uh. I was about two years ago: uh we did the uh, the qualcomm invent off the.
Why wait and vent off together uh, which was a super fun experience? I uh was captain of one of the two teams and we um my team. We built the the why wait system, which was a sort of an iot based uh alarm system for uh for bicyclists and other people that are doing activities uh. If someone falls down uh and gets hurt, there’s a there was a a beacon module on on the helmet. That would then transmit to the dragon board and then to your smartphone to alert uh any of the uh any of the people that you listed as uh as your notification. Uh people, your emergency contacts, yeah uh, so you know there’s this iot safety system for biking and um. You know i still i’m super excited about that product.
That was, that was a uh, incredible experience. I’M so glad you had fun with that, and – and that is a perfect example of just taking that ingredient of the dragon board and expanding on that to you know, really have a whole end-to-end solution. So we’ve been really inspired by that use case and a lot of others that have come from the community to you know notifying somebody that has had a heart attack in their home like a whole home monitoring system came out of another hack.
So a lot of great stories, and we did that in um three days, 24 hours of build time. You know i had a good team with trey and claire uh. You know we just we worked hard and uh.
I put something together really quick, but it’s crazy to think that was two years ago you guys have been around for three years now, there’s two years of development that you guys have done with the dragon board. So i can imagine that there’s so much more, you can do yeah and and not just what the community has developed, but it’s so exciting to see that translated into real commercial products. So you know there’s a baby monitoring solution with a camera that uses absolutely no sensors, knit health that’s out there in the market, so just to see that kind of translation into something.
That’S really useful in your day-to-day life is really inspiring in and of itself. So cool hey, so you have uh. You have a couple makers that you brought as well. We do we do so i’d love to share some of the the things that they’ve done and uh. We have stephanie and sarah.
Let’S get sarah over here and check out this robot dress: um, hey sarah come on over here and let’s, let’s see what you’ve got here um, let me squeeze over this way. Excuse me anna and um yeah here so this uh. This is zara naderi, uh and you’ve built you call this. The robot, robot, yeah and uh tell everyone.
What does this thing do? Well, uh this robot dress is supposedly supposed to help me become more social. How does it do that? It forces people to give me long, hugs, okay and um, and really to inspire people to reimagine what engineering can be applied for and that you need friends, because i didn’t build this alone. I actually had a team of awesome, fabulous engineers and costume designers to help me build it, and it is a collection of various visions under this overarching vision and it’s it’s really um. Really a dream come true.
So so this looks incredible, but i don’t see the robot part, obviously, and also there’s a there’s, a 410c element in here the dragonboard right here you can see it kind of yep and we didn’t want to limit our imagination, yeah, and so i wanted to be Able to use a platform that when i wanted to grow more layers of software onto it, i didn’t have to change a new platform, and so we use the dragonboard initially, and i know at this stage um, you know it’s it’s just these these movements, but again, Once we add more layers, that’s why we wanted to use that board. Can we get a demo? Yes, can i give you a robot hug, absolutely yeah? Okay. So, let’s, let’s take one step back this way, so we can keep this on camera and then what’s the rule, the rules are um. You have to wait until i let you come in.
You can’t let go of me until the dress lets go of you. I don’t know where it’s gon na land, so i apologize for that in advance if it’s something and um apparently actually, because it forces you to give me about a 10 second hug after six seconds, your body, chemistry changes, and so it’s a therapeutic huck. Are you ready? I like that? I am ready. Okay, let’s do this all right here we go here.
We go it’s working, it is working. I won’t! No. I won’t for some people this is uh yeah.
It is therapeutic who would have known. I had a whole moment there and so tell everyone real quick. What what do you do? What’S your background, i know we met on the on the invent off, but what’s what’s your day-to-day uh engineer, i like to create engineering experiences that help break stereotypes? What engineering can be applied for and i build maker spaces to get kids excited safe spaces where people can actually get involved and break things and learn things and and build things and so um anything anything that can get people jazzed about engineering and that engineering is A medium to create that is, that is what i love to do good. Well, this is fantastic, and i definitely think that you’re breaking some barriers with this. This is not the robot dress that i was expecting to see, and i love it.
Okay, yeah you’re welcome and uh. Let’S have a stephanie come on over now and uh: okay, yeah i’ll switch sides with you here and uh okay. So this is a stephanie and you’ve got this incredible light up. Helmet uh as well tell everyone.
What does this thing? Do well it lights up and it changes colors. I have several modes about six or seven modes and i can change it with this little knob thing here and the main ones are just like rainbow and shifts, and then, since this is a daft punk helmet, it has to work with music. So i have a microphone here and it changes colors with music or my voice. As i talk so, let’s, let’s find that demo uh this other way. Oh, let me find it here, so i think this is a little bit uh it’s kind of loud in here, but you can see it going up and down with my voice. Yeah.
Oh yeah! Look at that! Hello, hello! Oh, that’s! Great! That’S a lot of fun! For parties – yes, definitely definitely, and so i made it all from scratch. I’Ve never made a helmet before, and so here we are, i 3d printed everything bondos sand, uh paper like sanded it all. So i think it’s smoother right here touch here. Oh so that’s yeah! This so this is completely custom fabricated, everything from scratch. It took me a month to make this and the visor i vacuum formed and i spray painted with the tint and yeah it’s a lot of fun, and then you stuffed a dragon board inside of this as well. Exactly so, i have the dragon board and the the sensor mezzanine and that’s it that’s all. I had to do for the lights, and that was cool because i usually don’t know which board to use for like oh, is it just going to be lights, or do i need wi-fi or not, and with this one at least i was like? Oh, it doesn’t matter, i have all the options so that was cool yeah.
Is it possible to get you to put it on and get a demo? Oh yeah. Absolutely let me put this microphone away. Let’S do it.
Oh it fits good too. I guess it must, because you custom-made it exactly and and then are you able to trigger the buttons on the side? No, not yet yeah right. Now, it’s just the knob that i had somewhere here this one and then i can just change it. Ah, there you go yeah so yeah.
I think i can leave it there, so it’s shifting all the time, yeah great well thanks for making that thanks for bringing it here to maker faire too uh, it’s so fun and a great job. Thank you very much. Thank you, so you’ve got ta. You’Ve got your own channel. Stephanie explains it all. That’S right! I have my youtube channel. It’S definitely explains it all, and i do makes like this on and put it on youtube.
Yeah i’ve seen you do. You have a lot of builds on there. Yes, i do. I have quite a few check it out good. Definitely, okay, thanks stephanie, so anna.
I just want to say thanks again for all of your support and uh. You know you congratulations on three years of dragonboard 410c success um, and i can’t wait to see what else people are making with this me either. That’S the beautiful thing: it’s having it out there in this community’s hands and seeing what comes up uh, have a great maker faire and uh i’ll be checking in all right. Qualcomm dragon ball 410c announced here at maker faire three years ago and uh just doing great things. .