K210 AI Accelerator
By Ben Everard. Posted
This article was originally published as part of HackSpace magazine, which has since been incorporated into Raspberry Pi Official Magazine.
You can run neural networks on your Raspberry Pi, but they’re demanding and can suck up a lot of your processor time – especially if you’re using a Raspberry Pi Zero. This HAT lets you offload some of the processing of neural networks to an additional processor, the Kendryte K210. This isn’t as powerful as some of the other neural network accelerators – running at about 0.5 TOPS. But it doesn’t suck up too much electricity and is convenient to use.
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Pre-trained models will be available for object detection and face detection, but if you want to dig into TensorFlow, you can create your own. While TensorFlow development is quite an involved affair, you can run existing models without too much difficulty from Python. If you’ve already got a heavy workload on your Raspberry Pi, this is a great way to add a little extra compute power to enable AI.
$38, from crowdsupply.com
Ben is the Editor of HackSpace magazine. When not wrangling words, he enjoys cycling, gardening, and attempting to identify wild mushrooms.
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