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Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

cstanton — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:28:35 GMT

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

[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzT6vDtz6rU:640:360]

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.

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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?

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

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

vmate — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:15:22 GMT

RAM bandwidth is not looking that great for LLMs (about 50 GB/s if my math is right), I guess some 2B active MoE would be fine even on slow RAM, but probably not a pleasant experience.

Also, I can't see any detailed specs on the CPU cores or NPU either, so hard to tell how fast prefill/prompt processing would go.

I don't know of any recent MoE models that would be a good fit off the top of my head, Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B looks like a good option but it's old, or Gemma 4 12B is newer but dense. It would be fun to experiment with these in a RoadTest though.

The real killer would be Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on a 32GB variant.

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

balajivan1995 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:34:58 GMT

MCU + MPU ☺

16GB LPDDR5 ☺

Triband wifi ☺

Lots of expansion ports ☺

64GB eMMC storage 😐

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

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

cstanton — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:51:13 GMT

Do you have experience with running local llm agents?

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

veluv01 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:35:30 GMT

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.

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

veluv01 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:27:49 GMT

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

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

embeddedguy — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:58:36 GMT

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?

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

DAB — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:17:57 GMT

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.

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

kk99 — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:38:18 GMT

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.

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

skruglewicz — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:19:54 GMT

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

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

skruglewicz — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:18:14 GMT

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.

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

robogary — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:56:19 GMT

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.

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

michaelkellett — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:52:23 GMT

You may be right - I was overwhelmed by the gloss and hype and the lack of numbers or real data.

When I read stuff like "Instant response on GPIO, PWM, and CAN-FD enables zero-jitter motor control and safety-critical reliability." the alarm bells start ringing in my brain.

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

beacon_dave — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:22:28 GMT

[quote userid="121623" url="~/products/arduino/f/arduino-forum/56978/are-you-looking-out-for-the-arduino-ventuno-q/235779"]The Ventuno doesn't seem to be aimed at industrial or commercial projects[/quote]

Their marketing team may disagree with you there slightly as they manage to mention 'industrial' 7 times: 🙂

https://www.arduino.cc/product-ventuno-q

Looks like it is being aimed at AI and robotics type applications.

"...While competitors focus purely on AI inference, VENTUNO Q delivers both intelligence and deterministic actuation – essential for robotics, industrial control, and any application where AI must interact with the physical world..."

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

michaelkellett — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:42:31 GMT

It's very hard to see where Qualcomm are going with Arduino.

It's moved a very long way from the Arduino origins.

The Ventuno doesn't seem to be aimed at industrial or commercial projects (stuck with low band width legacy IO on the micro-controller, lack of serious data, no suggestion of long term availability guarantee etc etc).

On the other hand it looks like overkill for all but a tiny section of the hobby/learning market (3 cameras, three displays, 16Gb RAM).

Perhaps it will become clearer with time.

It looks as if it may well have the processing power to be a useful computing core for OEM but it would need much more support than I can find so far.

For that market an interface like the Beaglebone's PRU would be an asset.

In the end it will be down to pricing and support - but the price indications of "under $300" that I've seen so far suggest to me that the micro-controller is undersized (an STM32H series part would be better) and that there isn't enough high speed general purpose IO bandwidth to interface with the main processor.

The video in/out is fine but there is no obvious way to get raw general data in and out at speed other than the ethernet port.

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

beacon_dave — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:15:32 GMT

Bundling it with something like a PIXKIT platform could shave off a few hours though 🙂

PIXKIT 3.0 Knight Driving Kit For Autonomous Driving Vehicle Development and Software R&D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alOqjHIpwJc

It could be a road test in more ways than one.

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

dougw — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:54:52 GMT

I have made full sized autonomous vehicles in the past. It would be a herculean task to try to do something like that in a road test.

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

embeddedguy — Sat, 23 May 2026 04:50:17 GMT

I am still to get my hands on with Uno Q. So first the Q and then another Q.

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

Dipeshkachhi — Sat, 23 May 2026 02:12:20 GMT

Good idea but not that much align with its usage , you could try something related to its features like you can use it to make autonomous vehicles .

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

dougw — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:54:38 GMT

Probably not what it is aimed at but what I might try to use it for is capturing picture-in-picture video blogs.

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

Dipeshkachhi — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:14:37 GMT

Its would be wonderful if get it for Roadtest

RE: Are you looking out for the Arduino Ventuno Q?

robogary — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:05:51 GMT

Does Ventuna have blocking diodes so the usb power doesnt backfeed into the external supplies or visa versa ?

RE: Anyone Have stability issues with Arduino Uno Q?

BigG — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:55:11 GMT

This video (from 8 mins) might help explain what's going on... suspect your issues are related to this new "LLEXT" feature

https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/services/llext/index.html

www.youtube.com/watch

Anyone Have stability issues with Arduino Uno Q?

SensoredHacker0 — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:16:08 GMT

So im at my PC typing away. The Uno Q ran my code on the first try on the first day i got it, a couple days ago.
made some more tests, for 2 days everything was working great. Then, without warning, did not move it, or touch it, it stopped.
ok fine I guess. Then I tried to upload new test code. it compiles, and claims to have been uploaded. but the code doesnt work.

The hardware which was attached, when it failed:
a Max33041E shield, and the Ethernet R3 shield. these had been working for a couple days straight.

Not like the code is buggy, but like it doesn't even init the serial print lines.
bash my head on the wall for a while.
Press Reset. nothing. Un plug it, wait, re insert usb power.
$dmesg shows it, loading without issue.

Pull the shields off, load blink. same thing, it compiles, and claims to upload, but the code never runs.

I haven't reinstalled the boot-loader, by the time I thought to try that, I'd already gone to bed.
But I've never had such random problems before. Ive got arduino running in projects that have run for 6 years straight not problem.

besides reloading the bootloader and one have some ideas?

Are there stability issues with the Arduino Uno Q I should know about?

Perhaps the most frustrating thing was that the LED matrix was making little hearts and arduino logos the whole time.
meanwhile blink wont run.

RE: Anyone Have stability issues with Arduino Uno Q?

SensoredHacker0 — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:26:05 GMT

Weird, because for everyone I know IRL, these things typically just work.