Seeking Feedback on Your Preference for an AMD Kria Workshop

I voted for the KRia drives kit. My preference would be a workshop on building a servo drive with the KRia kit.

I'd be specifically interested in multi-modal sensor integration with the Robotics starter kit. Alternatively, integrating multiple robot POVs into a shared situational map (i.e. more than just localization, but, e.g., triangulation to a environmentally placed emitter). Probably all these can be done with the vision kit as well, so I'm not too picky about it being the robotics kit.

This is new technology for me. Although there is some canned starter software, given the underlying complexity, I would need to start with some introductory work. Eventually I would be interested to see how this integrates with ROS2.

I really don't get it. Everything, everybody wants to talk to the "Cloud"??  What is the driving force for the Cloud?  This means you have to pay somebody else to do the work, and how SECURE is it? This is like what we used to call shared hosting. One of my large DB was on the Cloud I had 250K of data plus static pages which we generated via a program we would run called publish. Now to put this in context, it was written in PERL which is heavily dependent on where Perl lived and where CPAN lived. (this was not my choice as the system was "pre-configured" there were over 100 modules and each had references to Perl and CPAN. I have my data I downloaded the MySQL tables but they had erased the Tree of Static web pages! I also had a copy of the source I was using. 

My intentions were to track down every instance and fix it to my standards. I never relaunched the site, as it was going to need a rewrite. I  started from scratch, This project I later abandoned. I will explain this later. I do all of my hosting on a Linux box that is less than 20 feet from this chair. I am content to just pay AT&T for my 1Gbyte fiber service, and I have several projects that I am working on concurrently, well sort of. New upgraded web server which requires a software upgrade from Debian 10 to 12. The new OpenBSD uses pf, in the transparent mode of course, to both work as my firewall and my switch,. A Pi-hole with Astrix my voice-over IP phone system.  While all this mess is going on I put up Jetty (a lightweight version of Tomcat on my desktop, so I can use Java applications for the websites, so I can for once put a nail into Perl. 

I will end this diatribe. ~~ Cris. 

PS Please remember this: If you use WiFi of any sort you now have a back door into you data. Stay wired!!!  BTW this also includes a tunnel between to WiFi points as well. 

The "cloud" is just someone else's computer that they control and manage and tell you how you're going to use it, or not.  They can kick you off their servers and you're just out of luck.  (Research the Social Media site Parler that went through just that.)

I would suggest to NOT buy the "Vision" kit.  It's a crippled version of the SoM with one of the interconnects missing and very little real documentation.  Unfortunately, it was the first kit on the market and it was the one I bought.  Had I to do it over, I would go with the Robotics kit as it has the most versatile I/O accessible.

I would be curious how they can create an acceptable implementation without really getting into the detail of DSP implementations.

I can see how you can cooky cutter an implementation using menus and limited options, but that would be a far cry from an optimized implementation.

I agree with Chris about the "cloud." Such implementations are just a throw back to the old IBM central computer concept.

Plus I have had several notifications lately that my "data" has been compromised on government computers, so security is clearly not being implemented well.

For companies that don't have IT as their core business, cloud makes sense. 

IMHO, only to the extent you are willing for anything on the cloud to be released to the world (e.g., state supported hackers, cloud provider employees with side interests), as without homomorphic encryption you put your trade secrets at risk. The answer is different for companies you know and trust, i.e. your own "private" cloud.

Interesting. I know the vision kit comes with an HDMI interface; do they give you the license to the IP that uses it, or is that "extra"?