New knock off Arduino board

Well after having difficulties uploading my first sketch to my new OSEPP UNO R3 Plus I learned I was the proud owner of a knock off. But hell, Now I kinda just want to get messy with it and fry it. It came with a very small kit with limited documentation, a few cheap components and a fairly steep learning curve. I figure, what the heck, time to jump in. It seems the memory of the board is only such that when analyzing audio you can just sample a second at a time making only short sound or initial sound analysis possible. I am looking at identifying barks of a particular basset hound and logging them. Also, a super paranoid peephole device for a friend.