Seeed Studio Robot Kit on Kickstarter

21 May 2020

I recently received an email from Seeed Studio about a Kickstarter campaign that they're running for MARK (Make a Robot Kit). The kit is targeted at teaching robotics in STEM education but it looks like it would also be a fun toy. I've had bad experiences with Kickstarter before, but I've used a lot of product successfully from Seeed Studio. The product is developed by TinkerGen which is Seeed's spinoff STEM Education company. The kit uses the Kendryte K210 RISCV64 dual core SoC that is used in the Sipeed Maix series of boards which I've used. It is programmable using the Codecraft graphical interface or the MaixPyIDE (MicroPython). I thought this might be of interest to members of the community. It is a bit expensive but has a lot of neat features.

https://seeedstudio.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0c272aa6642cc5d058579205f&id=8d08cb040b&e=0420848961

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dubbie over 5 years ago

That looks a nice mobile robot, well designed and with lots of functionality and potential. I think I would still rather make my own, I've decided that the fun ifor me is more in the design and build than the using.

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ralphjy over 5 years ago in reply to fmilburn

Hi Frank,

I did a few other posts on the Maixduino which is similar to the Dock but in Arduino Uno form factor and it doesn't use the M1 Wifi module but uses the standard M1 module and adds an ESP32 for WiFi.

https://www.element14.com/community/people/ralphjy/blog/2019/10/01/sipeed-maixduino-arduino-ide-programming
https://www.element14.com/community/people/ralphjy/blog/2019/09/30/sipeed-maixduino
https://www.element14.com/community/people/ralphjy/blog/2019/10/04/sipeed-maixduino-maixpy-image-classification

I was at the point where I was going to start developing my own neural network models and also try using RTOS. But as life would have it, this was in the same timeframe that I was doing the Path II Programmable training. I've really been enjoying playing with FPGAs and haven't got back to using the K210. Maybe I'll be able to do that this summer. As I've gotten older, I can't multiplex projects like I used to .

I did get around to pulling the platformio setup and trying it, but right now it is just consuming space on the hard drive.
https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/frameworks/kendryte-freertos-sdk.html.

Sorry I can't provide more insight.

Ralph
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fmilburn over 5 years ago

Hi Ralph,

This is interesting. I may have missed it but have you posted anything on your experience with the Kendryte SoC? I am interested in the Python implementation. I see it runs on RTOS?

edit: saw your post here https://www.element14.com/community/community/project14/blog/2019/11/05/makevember-project-sipeed-maix-dock-camera
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