Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Sipeed

SiPeed AI at the Edge

Edge AI looks like going to be the next big things. In this blog post, I am going to introduce a very cheap and yet power AI chip based on Kendryte K210. K210 is based on open source RISC-V instructions set. According to Wikipedia ,  RISC-V  started in 2010 and in the recent 2 years, actual chips are produced with prototyping boards. A few China companies have started to build prototyping kits around this chip. One of these company is SiPeed . They have produced a few form factors of prototyping board and I have gotten hold of the Maixpy GO board. The Maixpy Go has the following features: 2.8 inch touch LCD Camera TF card slot Mic RGB LED Speaker WIFI Rechargeable battery Powered via USB C. The USB-C also act as Uart for transferring of codes and flashing of firmware. There are a few ways to program the kit, micropython, Arduino IDE or Platform IO. For micropython, there is Maixpy IDE which is a port of OpenMV IDE. Sipeed also has 2 interesting perip...