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
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
Johan Benko 4 years ago
Andrew Couldrake 4 years ago
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! :-)