seeed

Alright, Here We Go I got my hands on the Re:Camera from Seeed. Essentially, it’s a small box (a cube about 4 cm per side), wrapped in a heatsink. Inside, there’s a dual-core RISC-V based MPU (updated: only one core is visible to the system, the second one is apparently reserved for special operations), an ancient 8051 microcontroller, an OmniVision camera sensor, LEDs for illumination, Wi-Fi, BT, and, you know, all sorts of peripherals. RAM is a bit scarce, only 256 megabytes, so getting Greengrass on it will be problematic. You can connect Ethernet via a special dongle-adapter that barely stays put, but for development, there’s no point, because the camera shares its network over USB type C, and it’s easier to work that way. If you’re short on storage (and the device comes in 8 GB and 64 GB built-in storage options), you can stick in a MicroSD card. You can also stick the box to something metallic, as it has magnets on one side. ...