Raspberry Pi Lego Sorter

Re:Raspberry Pi Lego Sorter by frettchen on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @10:09AM (#25834098)

> Raspberry Pi is at the heart of this AI–powered, automated sorting machine that is capable of recognising and sorting any LEGO brick.

> ...wirelessly sends to a more powerful computer able to run the neural network that classifies the parts.

"The heart" may be a strong term - the eyes and hands, maybe, but the brain, at least, appears to be separate.

Still a very cool project.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Lego Sorter by ed25519FUUU on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:18AM (#25834954)

I’m surprised an RPI can’t be optimized to run the CNN classifier. It has up to 8 GB of ram and a pretty decent integrated GPU.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Lego Sorter by ChuckNorris89 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:41AM (#25835238)

The problem is its GPU was always poorly documented or not at all since Broadcom considered it proprietary IP and never provided any detailed low-level documentation.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Lego Sorter by showerst on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @01:57PM (#25837183)

I wonder if they could do that onboard with a jetson nano.

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