Review Seeed Studio Grove AI HAT for Raspberry Pi: Artificial, But Not Intelligent

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Billed as a tool for running artificial intelligence workloads at the edge, is the Grove AI Hat a cheap alternative to a Google Coral USB Accelerator?

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[bit_user]

Thanks for taking the time to review this.

with no storage and only 8MB total RAM on the HAT expanding the project to do something useful like record a clip of visitors or match faces to a recognition database isn’t an option.

That amount of RAM is the real deal-breaker. Any interesting AI model is going to be much larger. So, even if they sort out the software issues and you use a USB link for the Pi to have some decent bandwidth communication with the hat, it's ultimately going to be limited by that RAM.

I wonder if they designed the hardware without knowing enough about how it should be used. Then, when they realized it wasn't going to be very useful, just shoved the thing out the door to try and recoup some of their up-front costs.