Grove AI HAT for Edge Computing

[tristan.mumford]

baqwas post_id=55017 time=1562815607 user_id=14923:

@baqwas post_id=55017 time=1562815607 user_id=14923

Hello jellyfish,

I understand that [b]Raspberry Pi Raspbian supports Arduino IDE[/b] but what about Python (and rich set of libraries for AI/ML) for the AI HAT? Do we need to install the toolchain along the lines of the Maixduino with [i]some[/i] different binaries? Is there some guidance for this type of exercise?

I wish you luck. I have been trying since I received my Grove AI HAT to do anything with it. So far, this is what I have learned:

• It is possible to build the Kendryte toolchain on the Jetson Nano.
  
  
  
  *It is not possible to build the Kendryte toolchain on the Raspberry Pi 3. It causes a segfault in gcc during build.
  
  
  
  *The link for the board for Arduino doesn’t seem to support armhf or aarch64… or something.
  
  
  
  *Attempting to use the Arduino board definition leads to Arduino reporting that the kendryte gcc isn’t there (which I have, at least on my Jetson), or kflash isn’t available on my OS, which I have also installed. Both the kendryte toolchain and kflash are readily available on my system.
  
  
  
  *It’s impossible to build ArduinoCore-k210 from GitHub. The instructions are flawed, and CMake collapses in a heap anyway.
  
  
  
  *The kendryte sdk also doesn’t seem to be usable.
  
  
  
  Not only do I have the Grove AI HAT, I also have a camera and a TFT for it on the way. I really hope it becomes possible to use the tools on an ARM platform in the near future as that is pretty much all I use these days.
  
  
  
  In answer to the Arduino question, yes, the Arduino IDE runs on the RPi3.