The first neural network implementation that I'm going to look at is for CIFAR-10 (Canadian Institute For Advanced Research). CIFAR-10 is a computer vision dataset used to train and test neural networks for object recognition. The CIFAR-1...
Introduction
What is a Data Acquisition System?
Market Review
Cost of Ownership
Module Types
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Power Consumption Tests
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Operation with the BenchVue software.
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Introduction This is my openin...
Introduction As Particle introduced their third generation of hardware. The Particle Argon, Boron, and Xenon are Particle’s latest offering in the world of IoT dev boards, and this time they add mesh networking. The three new boards are all buil...
One of the technical areas that I am interested in is object detection in video streams. The specific application is the real-time identification of objects in video from IP surveillance cameras. As part of the PYNQ-Z2 roadtest I want to ...
I thought that I'd try out another of the basic overlays before moving on to a neural network application. The PYNQ development software provides a set of logic tools using the logictools overlay. You can create a digital circuit by specif...
I'm continuing my exploration of the base overlay to control the external peripheral interfaces on the PYNQ-Z2. The 3 interfaces are the Pmod, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi which are each controlled through a separate soft-core Microblaze processor...
The MCIMX7ULP-EVK is the i.MX 7ULP Evaluation Kit, which provides a platform for rapid application development using the i.MX 7ULP, featuring NXP's advanced implementation of the Arm Cortex -A7 core, the Arm Cortex-M4 core, as well as 3D and 2D ...
Course module 12 finishes up by implementing a weather station device using the the Environmental sensors and the BLE device. This course module is another example of the course not being finished before it was released. There are 3 lab v...
Course module 11 describes connecting things to the Internet and Cloud services. I think the proof reader didn't get to these slides . In the Module syllabus, I don't think that "Try to keep bullets short and to a minimum" was a topic.&nbs...
In this post, I examine in a little more detail how well the Sensor Cube and the Wireless hub's antennas and wireless communication can work. In talking with lui_gough and others, there may be some distance limitations that are not as good as the...
As an introduction to FPGA programming the PYNQ-Z2 provides FPGA overlays. An overlay is a generic FPGA design that provides some specific functionality, in essence a hardware library. An overlay is generally programmed via a software abs...
The Element 14 road test program is awesome. Where else would you get the opportunity to be sent some amazing bit of tech to play with? And all that is asked in return is that you write up what you found. Simple. Fair. In fact it's better than fair. ...
My end objective for this roadtest is to implement a binary neural network (BNN) for image classification on the PYNQ-Z2. I'll need to learn the board hardware and the development framework first. There are a lot of tutorial videos on You...
Before committing to my tests I thought I'd make sure I could make the motor turn. I wired up the motor and trio of boards. The screws were quite small so I had to use a jewellers driver. I connected up the power supply, set it to 9v with a 0.5A limi...
Post #4Part of a series for the Road Test here: IDT Wireless Flow Rate, Humidity&Temp Sensing Kit Feature Walk-throughThis post gives a walk-through of the features and more in-depth look at hardware of the demo kit. As noted in some ot...
Post #3Part of a series for the road test listed here:IDT Wireless Flow Rate, Humidity&Temp Sensing Kit Kit Initial reactions & power up Here is an overview video of what comes in the kit and my initial reactions on star...
Just received the PYNQ-Z2 Dev Kit for the roadtest. Thanks danzima for the quick shipment. The kit contained everything needed to start immediately.PYNQ-Z2 board12V, 2.5A Power supply with barrel jack and US and European plug adapters.Pre-...
PlanMy road test of the TMC5161-EVAL-KIT by Trinamic is two fold. Firstly to confirm that the setup can accurately and repeatedly step to the required position. Secondly to look at the setup under stall conditions. Accurate SteppingTo measure ac...
The eighth course module looks at a Cortex application processor the A9 to examine the features and programming for a processor that might be used in a mobile or smartphone design. Here are some of the processor highlights: Lab5...
Course module 10 is an introduction to Bluetooth with emphasis on the BLE protocol. BLE has the characteristics that make it ideal for use in IoT communication: BLE makes the tradeoff of shorter range to reduce power, but still has reasonab...
I road-tested the Harting MICA Complete IIoT Starter Kit.In this follow up blog, I'm connecting the Node-RED container of the Mica to AWS (Amazon Web Services).The goal if this blog is to exchange data with AWS via Node-RED flows. A follow up of the ...
When I RoadTested the Kitronik Klimate board recently and made a wireless weather station with it, I needed to display four values (temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure and windspeed) plus some text, on a display. As you can see in the ph...
I roadtested the Harting MICA Complete IIoT Starter Kit.In this follow up, some experiments with the SD card: how to mount it in a container and how to share it on the network.The documentation for the SD card options is terse. What you can see here ...
