Some of the earliest uses for sensors that emerged over a hundred years ago involved direct actuation for control. Think of the mercury thermostat. A thermally responsive coil moves with changes in temperature and tilts a mercury chamber until it closes a set of contacts to turn on a heater in the home or office […]
Ultra-low power development board for machine learning uses GoogleTensorFlow Lite
The SparkFun Edge, a new development board powered by Apollo3 from Ambiq, is now shipping from SparkFun.com. The SparkFun Edge was created in collaboration with Google’s TensorFlow Lite team to create new tools for developers to bring voice and gesture recognition to edge devices. The Apollo3 from Ambiq uses a Cortex M4 processor with 384KB […]
Smart speaker reference design operates on Google Android Things platform
Goertek Inc. and NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced the availability of their certified reference design for a smart speaker operating on Google’s Android Things platform, featuring the Google Assistant built-in and Google Cast functionality. This reference design incorporates Google’s Android Things into a smart speaker. Goertek and NXP’s groundbreaking turnkey solution is designed to accelerate an original equipment manufacturer’s (OEM’s) […]