Um, it looks like a $20 android phone without the case or battery?
Because that's pretty much what it is.
Doesn't even have a cell modem.
More like an Android tablet than a phone.
Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35
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Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because as an industry, we are bad at our jobs. The network facing software has critical security vulnerabilities. Even security folks accept that as the way of the world. At the point the software is released it has (hopefully) no known security vulnerabilities, which is a reasonably secure situation to be in. However, eventually some of them will become known, and that is not safe.
But a "critical security vulnerability " depends on the use. My daily driver? Yes, I want all of the security updates. A raspberry pi for playing arcade games that I occasionally scp a ROM over to? I really don't care if someone hacks in. We, as an industry, are bad about pushing "every device that is on the internet needs to be as up to date as possible all the time" when it reality there is a lot of unimportant stu…
The "security" industry is unfortunately full of corpo-authoritarians. Once they realised a lot of the population can be forced to do anything if they can be convinced it's for "security", they've been doubling down on that.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks, I've got one of their depth cameras that's been ok. I didn't realize they'd expanded their line so much. Glad to hear about the API/SDK improving, last time I mucked with it a year or so ago it seemed like it was underdeveloped. Going to have to dig into the sensors they use - had passable luck with non ML tasks using dirt cheap camera modules from laptops running at low resolutions right up until I started m…
Well, you can control the camera ISP and they use very decent IMX modules, so it really shouldn't an issue like it was with the cheapos, as long as you can do the coding to your needs. EDIT: * https://docs.luxonis.com/projects/api/en/latest/samples/Colo...
Check out TI’s new low cost board vision AI board: https://www.ti.com/tool/SK-AM62A-LP
They have a home grown AI accelerator along with free Deep learning SDK.
Also offer a pretty easy online tool (free again) to use called TI Edge AI studio. They are using extending the existing AI solutions that come from the higher performance parts like TDA4 and AM68A parts. Pretty good considering a lot of these manufactures are just buying other AI Ip that isn’t performing great and investing in their own engineering.
Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, you can control the camera ISP and they use very decent IMX modules, so it really shouldn't an issue like it was with the cheapos, as long as you can do the coding to your needs. EDIT: * https://docs.luxonis.com/projects/api/en/latest/samples/Colo...
Check out TI’s new low cost board vision AI board: https://www.ti.com/tool/SK-AM62A-LP They have a home grown AI accelerator along with free Deep learning SDK. Also offer a pretty easy online tool (free again) to use called TI Edge AI studio. They are using extending the existing AI solutions that come from the higher performance parts like TDA4 and AM68A parts. Pretty good considering a lot of these manufactures are…
Looks nice. Honestly I am just kind of playing around right now and the Luxonis products are the only ones that seem to have any kind of active development, support, and usable (for me) hardware in the hobbyist (nVidia's platform is just a huge mess. I tried to get their SDK running and their own documentation was out-of-date, missing necessary links, and sometimes blatantly wrong. I wasn't going to dump $400+ into that ecosystem.
Google gives up on hardware consistently and has the worst support of any existing software company (effectively zero) and has bungled the AI hand every change they get.
ARM NPUs I am not going to bother with. I can't even get video encoder acceleration working on a non-Pi ARM SoC except for the Rock64 and that is like 6 years old and was missing that functionality for 4 of them.
Intel only cares about its corporate partners and doesn't give a crap about hobbyists in regards to A.I. But their VPU was (is) decent and Oak guaranteed supply for at least until 2025 or thereabouts and built a useable API so we don't have to mess with OpenVINO.
It's all a mess right now but I can't say that competition is bad. It will be nice if we dispense with all the bespoke platforms and agree on some common architecture for edge devices, but I won't hold my breath.
Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35
#195has anyone from india tried to buy this?
Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35
#196I wish the RAM could be a bit more, at least 1G or 2G, so I can have a database on there without having to ship my data to the cloud. Then the system can really run isolated as much as possible, for security and privacy.
Dude database is supposed to be on disk not RAM.
Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35
#197This seems like a somewhat related place to ask this: Does anyone know where I can get a 3" round screen? I have a Star Wars clock from the 1970s that has a ton of empty space in the base. I want to put a small computer in it and replace the 3" clock face with a round screen, so it can show the time and maybe some fun Star Wars animations. But I just don't know how to find a 3" round screen without buying 1000 of the…
looks like lilygo just released a new 2.8" version -> https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/06/10/t-rgb-esp32-s3-board...
with the touch layer it is bigger than 2.8" but I bet that can be removed.
One comment there also links to aliexpress for a 2.8" hdmi screen but that one is more expensive
Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Few years ago, you built your arcade cabinet, and decided to put some nice launcher like RetroPie. It works fine for a few years, and then your friends tell you about Pico8 support.. nice, it is supported by RetroPie release! not nice: retropie requires ubuntu 18.04 or later.. let's hope your device supports it. Few years ago, you built a weather station. Sadly, the weather backend you had was discontinued. You found…
Some boards have decent support. I've got an odroid C1 released in 2015 and I saw there is at least an Ubuntu 20 image for it!
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#199As usual, looks good on papier but no ecosystem and the current stack that it comes with is dead on arrival. Boards need to come with mainstream distro support or with an ecosystem (or both), otherwise it will just die. And with internet connected devices, you can't set-and-forget, so it needs to have live support. Edit: a RockPi S (same SoC) can be had for $35 and a touch LCD for $11... Granted, it doesn't come with…
Assuming it's small enough for your needs, a used Intel NUC can get you loads more mileage than pretty much any ARM SoC at an equivalent price. Currently available on eBay: * $49.95 for an i5-5300U at 2.3GHz, 4GB of RAM, and 128GB of SSD storage * $89.00 for an i3-7100U at 2.4GHz, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of SSD storage * $135.00 for an i7-5557U at 3.1GHz, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB of SSD storage ...all loaded with ample d…
Wait, NUCs are that cheap? I would appreciate a link so that I can get my hands on one. I don't use eBay often and filtering feels terrible on their site.
Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's dead on arrival; currently runs Debian 10 with custom patches and binary blobs. It's an RK3308 so not entirely impossible to run on a normal distro, but you'd have to bring your own firmware and device tree etc.
This is designed as an embeddable component for learning, prototyping, and OEMs. A lot of people here are just sniffily dismissing it as 'DOA' when what they mean is 'I would not want to maintain this.'
> 'I would not want to maintain this.'
Who the fuck would though? If there’s any value an SBC vendor should be providing it is some amount of support for a reasonable length of time.
There’s a reason the RPi is sold the way it is.