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Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

cstanton

How on the heels of the Arduino Uno Q, the new offering in conjunction with Qualcomm is the Arduino Ventuno Q:

Here's a run down of the specifications:

  • Main Processor (MPU): Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ‑8275 (octa‑core Arm CPU with Adreno 623 GPU and AI accelerator up to ~40 TOPS)
  • Microcontroller (MCU): STM32H5F5 (Arm Cortex‑M33 running at ~250 MHz)
  • MCU Memory: 4 MB Flash, 1.5 MB RAM
  • System Memory: 16 GB LPDDR5 RAM
  • Onboard Storage: 64 GB eMMC
  • Storage Expansion: M.2 slot (NVMe SSD support, PCIe Gen 4)
  • Wireless Connectivity: Wi‑Fi 6 (2.4 / 5 / 6 GHz), Bluetooth 5.3
  • Wired Networking: 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet (RJ45)
  • USB Ports:
    • 1 × USB‑C (power, data, DisplayPort Alt Mode)
    • 2 × USB 3.0 Type‑A
  • GPIO & Expansion:
    • 40‑pin GPIO header (Raspberry Pi compatible)
    • Arduino UNO‑style shield compatibility
    • Qwiic / I²C connectors
  • Camera Support: Up to 3 × MIPI‑CSI camera interfaces
  • Display Outputs:
    • HDMI
    • MIPI‑DSI
    • USB‑C DisplayPort Alt Mode
  • Audio: Microphone input and audio output via onboard headers
  • Industrial Interfaces: Multiple CAN‑FD interfaces (with and without PHY)
  • Power Input:
    • USB‑C: 5V up to 3A
    • Barrel jack: 12–24V DC
    • Screw terminal: 7–24V DC
  • Dimensions: Approximately 160 × 100 × 25.8 mm
  • Software Support: Linux (Ubuntu / Debian) on MPU and Arduino-compatible environment (Zephyr-based) on MCU

I've forwarded a few of my own questions to Arduino that I'll post to the element14 Community, mainly revolving around what's supported over the HDMI and DisplayPort, along with a 'high speed connector' it has available (and how that's used), but what we'd really like is to get some of these into your hands - maybe as a RoadTest or some kind of experimenting with competition.

I'm seeing a lot of microcontroller boards that straddle microcontroller hardware now, especially that they run 'ai models', but I'm not sure that people have gotten to grips with this yet, what's your level of working with them?

The answers from this will help us to tailor content from Arduino for the Community.

  • After reading some replies, I' m a bit perplexed too, at the commercial strategy, and at the same time I'm overwhelmed with possibilities. 

    Is Ventuno launch meant as an open source product to help enlighten the world, or an eval platform to use Qualcomm ICs or a mass produced product to embed in embedded solutions ? 

    3 camera inputs using YOLO-X would be an incredible show and tell demonstration for inspiring young creative minds. I'd like to start implementing now, :-) except Im on the slow boat just to use one camera. The tool better help me with examples like the Arduino tool does for driving servos and ping modules.

    Id love to put object detection on my hobby projects. My Spring Clean Garden Guardian project would be so much better with a visual deer recognition on it. I imagine showing kids a "sibling detector" alarm they can build with a Webcam and importing a few pics of their sibling. My bucket list project is to use object detection for vehicle steering. Does Ventuno help me provide basic solutions fairly quickly ? 

    I for sure would like to give it a spin. 

  • I am extremely excited to get my hands on the Ventuno Q! I have 3 Uno Qs and I'm excited to see how SBC mode works with the expanded memory. I'm wondering what the price point is. There are still hurdles they have to fix in the 2 & 4 GB models, but hey that is progress right.

  • in reply to michaelkellett

    I agree gentlemen, I'm excited for the expanded memory myself

  • I have registered for notification when it will be available. I am looking for a board that has support for NVMe and USB-C Display Mode. It may be good to try something different than Raspberry with hardware support for AI accelerators. I previously took part in the development of BeagleV Starlight JH7100, so it will be nice to see how it performs in comparison to, e.g., SpaceMit K3.

  • If I had the time, this might be a good board to build an all sky camera system.

    It could also look at clouds and possibly lightning.

  • in reply to embeddedguy

    One more thing, because with Arduino Uno Q there were so many people who encountered some issues with power, stability and also software, I think one should wait before doing something with it. Specifically, a design challenge.

    I am more looking for a product like to one currently open for the road test. RedPitaya. The advantage is that this device can be used as many different ways. For exmaple, it can work as oscilloscope or VNA or other Test and measurement instrument which makes it cheaper and easier to get the functionality without buying costly dedicated instrument. 

    Many of us are developer or maker or a hobbyist and that could save us some money. If it can than why not?

  • A Webinar(adding along with a AMA session, since it's a new hardware) followed by a RoadTest seems like a interesting option.Sweat smile

  • in reply to veluv01

    I'm more inclined towards using it for running Local LLM Agents, since it got decent amount of RAM(16 GB); it can run upto 14b parameter models and power consumption is within 15W.

  • in reply to veluv01

    Do you have experience with running local llm agents?

  • MCU + MPU Relaxed

    16GB LPDDR5 Relaxed

    Triband wifi Relaxed

    Lots of expansion ports Relaxed

    64GB eMMC storage Neutral face

    Can't believe they cheaped out on storage. Even mobile phones are moving from eMMC to UFS.