The Electromaker Show · 25 Oct 2023 · 27m · Episode 126
Host Ian reviews a mix of embedded hardware news, crowdfunding projects, and maker tutorials. He covers Nvidia's new Generative AI tools for robotics, the Tangara ESP32 music player on Crowd Supply, and Seeed Studio's high-refresh-rate Inkplate 6 Motion. The episode also highlights specific maker projects, including a DIY RC car using an ESP8266, a Silicon Labs gesture remote powered by Neuton.AI, and the open-source CLN17 stepper driver.
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Engineering & simulationNeuton.AI4.2 KB flash, 1.4 KB SRAM
Neuton's online platform was used to train a tiny AI model for a gesture remote, reducing the model size to 4.2 KB of flash and 1.4 KB of SRAM.
“This is a gesture-based remote control device, which uses a Silicon Labs development kit and an absolutely tiny model, which has been trained using Newton's online platform to make it into a gesture remote…”
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Engineering & simulationNVIDIA Isaac ROS / Generative AI
NVIDIA integrated generative AI into its Isaac ROS software stack to assist with AI-assisted data annotation, speeding up the labeling of training data for robotics perception models.
“So, perfect example of this, actually. is things like AI assisted data annotations. So if you need to annotate data, you can now get AI to help you with that.”
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makers and hobbyists
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