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Artificial Intelligence for Beginners (1)

Object recognition using the Maixduino board

In the first instalment of this series we will look at the comprehensive array of hardware offered by the Maixduino and at a couple of demonstration programs, including one that can recognize 1000 different objects.

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Andrew Couldrake 4 years ago

Thanks for the interesting article.
This excited my interest so I ordered and have received the Maixduino kit.
But nothing in life is easy; of course.
Currently (24 May 2020) anyone attempting to add MAIX to the Arduino IDE Boardmanager under Ubuntu 20.04 and Arduino IDE 1.8.12 will hit the following issue:
1 Search for MAIX fails to find anything.
2 Sipeed support forum has a work-around download suggestion that may work for windows; but fails with a CRC check in Linux. This is the discussion link : https://en.bbs.sipeed.com/t/topic/2062
Andy

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Johan Benko 4 years ago

Has this issue been resolved? Has someone succeeded in adding the board to the Arduino IDE?

Andrew Couldrake 4 years ago

Since I wrote my comments in May, I did manage to get the Python maixpy IDE working (on Linux not Windows) so that I could program the board in micro-python. I followed this useful guide.
I gave up on the Arduino IDE.
A polite email to the official Sipeeed support team in China, was never answered. Draw your own conclusions from that.
The board is cheap for its purported power - that's the +ve.
But it's hugely expensive in time & user effort to get it up and working.

I concluded that it's much easier to stick with the tried and tested products, with huge user bases, great support etc. Eg : Pi, ESP32, Intel, Jetson.
Focus your efforts on learning & development not debugging IDE's and broken firmware! :-)