NVIDIA Jetson Tk1 Basics

[SquishyIce]

Hello all, my team just got a Jetson Tk1 from FIRST Choice, and have no clue on how to use it. A cursory search for documentation yielded next to nothing, so we need help on getting this thing up and running. I have a few specific questions:

1) Is this board meant to be used as a coprocessor strictly for vision, or can you run sensors to it as well?

2) How do we interface with it? Is it part of the robot, or the DS? Additionally, how should it be wired?

3) What sort of programming will we need to do on this? I understand that it runs a version of Ubuntu 14.04, do we need to run scripts on boot in order to use it in a competition?

Vision processing has been at a minimum in years past for us, so we are all unfamiliar with things such as OpenCV. Help and/or documentation for related vision processing software/libraries would also be greatly appreciated. If I come up with any more questions, I'll comment on this thread with them.