NEURAL COMPUTING KIT COMBINES ATOMIC PI SBC WITH INTEL’S NCS2

Following the success of their last product; the Atomic Pi SBC which sold for only $34 and sold out multiple times, Team IoT, has returned with another successful Kickstarter project for a Neural Computing Development Kit that combines the Intel Cherry Trail-based Atomic Pi SBC with a 2GB RAM and 16GB eMMC, with Intel’s Neural Compute Stick 2 AI accelerator (NCS2).

The kit which comes with Ubuntu and intel’s OpenVINO preloaded on the Atomic Pi SBC to save users some startup time, also ships with an unnamed machine vision camera, a small breakout board, cables, and a 5V 5A power supply, making the kit all users need to develop AI-based solutions, out of the box, especially with the fact that the preloadedOpenVINO deep learning toolkit already comes with patches and code samples with pre-downloaded and pre-optimized models.

The Atomic Pi SBC around which the kit is based is an impressive SBC especially considering the $33 price which makes it surprisingly cheap for an Intel processor-based SBC. While there have been several reports about few issues around the board in the past, most of those issues seemingly stemmed from users loading a Windows 10 on the board instead of Linux, and this makes good guessing ground for the reasons behind the board being preloaded with Ubuntu (on a lighter note).

The embarrassing situations aside, the Atomic Pi is a rugged SBC, built around the Intel Atom x5-Z8350 Cherry Trail generation SoC, with 4x 14nm-fabricated cores clocked at 1.91GHz, which might be considered a “sell-off” product by many as Intel made a lot of them for an x86 smartphone wave that never hit and is the same SoC was used on Aaeon’s original, $99 UP board and DFRobot’s original $119 LattePanda SBC. The Pi maintains a 130 x 100 x 50mm form factor with a high profile that is a result of the huge heat sink slapped on top of the board. It is equipped with a gigabit Ethernet Port, WiFi-ac, Bluetooth 4.0, USB 2.0, micro-USB 3.0 OTG, and an HD-only HDMI port with audio output.  It also comes with a useful debug interface and a 9-axis IMU which might come in handy for certain projects.

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