1) The document discusses building a robot using open source software and Linux. It describes choosing components like an ODroid C1 processor and Arduino, and connecting them to control motors and movement. 2) A modular design is used with common communication protocols between components. An Arduino board connects to motors via an H-bridge and talks to the ODroid processor over serial. 3) The robot is intended to demonstrate taking open source tools and "gluing them together" to create something new with relatively little effort. Various software and hardware aspects of the build are covered at a high level.