India's Raspberry Pi Rival ( Thats Better )

Today i showcase Vicharaks Axon board, a designed in India SBC running the 8 core RockChip RK3588S, lots of ports and I/O. This my general experience with the board and less of a review :). Used some videos from ‪@Vicharak-FPGA‬ and most stuff mine.
Vicharaks official Axon site - vicharak.in/axon
Ther twitter - x.com/vicharak_in
Chapter:
00:00 - brief overview over the Company Vicharak, history
0:1:30 - back of the Board and RockChip RK3588S
02:45 - Side Ports and I/O of Axon
04:52 - Testing AXON Performance on Linux'
07:45 -AI tests
08:55 - Pricing and competition discussion
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[@LEGEND_TANMAY]

minecraft run karo

[@rgaming161]

Recently I watching some single board computer and itis a Indian company so can I buy this board can be delivered to my address??

[@nitinkumar29]

Looks like another scam from our Indian company, last such scam I know was about smartphone for 500 or 1000 INR. Don't pay for money for pre-booking, always wait because such companies have habit of swindle off money collected in the name of pre-booking, such modulus operandi is old. Such system can't be manufactured for 500 INR and it is priced at such to attract gullible people to give the money that they won't see again. So, don't promote such stuff on your channel.

[@theexplorer7065]

How to get free Raspberry Pi? Make a review video 😂

[@SpaceTimeBeing_]

What a horrible website. Its weirdly made because of that scrolling interactive spec and stuff. Order page is even more weird, didn't even load the CSS correctly.

[@KrishnaNaveen]

Bro I work on that

[@PluetoeInc.]

for real ???

[@PluetoeInc.]

hey show us , do you have videos on it on your channel ?

[@drepyman1385]

Wow

[@YashVardhan_Singh_Rathore.]

Cool

[@shashankshekhar9476]

Nice

[@InfoSoup]

A practical SBC is not about hardware but about software support. This is the reason Raspberry Pi is so popular.

[@snehanshourya3850]

I agree. While I wish this board succeeds, I won't be surprised if it's completely forgotten after a while just like 100s of other SBCs.

[@oksowhat]

@@snehanshourya3850 i am afraid this will happen, Indians are not known to be good community contributor

[@tui3264]

so true, upstreaming or keeping up with linux upstream is so important in sbc

[@AffectionateBeignets-mx2qd]

True. There are chinese sbcs with higher specs and performance but software support is zilch

[@bhaveshsonar7558]

Software keliye hardware toh chie

[@MOHITKUMAR-xe7bg]

glad to see it. I have been working in robotics and I know the pain of not having good SBC. will definitely buy it soon and use in my projects.

[@GareebScientist]

does this look good for the price?

[@killmehard]

@@GareebScientist Justified Price 13-15k

[@navneetsrivastava688]

@@GareebScientist As per now, it seems good. And I think, once they will go production level and that too on mass, price would come down to around 10k. Also, if they want people to buy it, they will have to release the OS image. We have some older raspberry pi boards which is used for on board machine learning using raw and continuous data, and most of the time they hit bottlenecks. This surely looks promising

[@AyushMishra-lr2xv]

Namaskaar sir, I'm also interested in in robotics, can you tell me how do I start? Although, I have a very small experience with Arduino, ESP32 and Raspberry Pie Zero 2w but couldn't make much progress, but now I want to work with real things. Plz, can you help🙏

[@MOHITKUMAR-xe7bg]

@@GareebScientist definitely price is a bit higher than other boards but it all depends, I have used navigation for mobile robots on raspberry pi and sometimes its computation power sucks. If this new board is able to handle these it will definitely be a promising robotics application. And price will also come down a bit in future since they have to compete with raspberry pi and other boards

[@i_Kruti]

The main reason behind the success of Rasberry Pi is their large community support as well as support from the company itself.....!! If Vicharak manages to do these kind support and community they can easily beat Rasberry Pi.....!!!

[@ARJUN__ROY----400]

You covers those scientific advancement in INDIA which other KZbinrs and especially Indian Media fails to do so. Hatsoff for your valuable efforts keep going🧡🧡🧡🧡

[@sauravbehera8364]

Raspberry Pi is so awesome not because of its hardware capability but because of its big active community. You can find many drivers, libraries, and support for RPi easily. Previously also many good and better hardware platforms have come up but they were not able to compete with Rpi because of this. I Hope the Axon board will be able to create a good community.

[@manishpawar4042]

@@sauravbehera8364 that's why we have to come up and so are response dog some work about and support this company

[@manishpawar4042]

For the winning of this company we the people have to support this company and also do some work around it and then it would be the main computer of raspberry Pi

[@bandhanmondal4685]

The innovation going on in India is unreal!!!! 💪🇮🇳❤️

[@GareebScientist]

i wasnt expecting a SBC so soon, pleasently surpirsed

[@shubhamchatterjee4642]

Koi Innovation nhi hai, isme Rockchip ka processor laga hai jo ki ek Chinese company hai. Chinese components ko laake assemble karna koi badi baat nhi hai, Mere paas aise log hai jo milkar ke isse bhi behtar board bana sakte hai. Innovation tab hota jab iska processor kisi Indian Company ke dwara design kiya hota wo bhi sirf India me . Lekin aisa hai nhi.

[@shivamagarwal2460]

​@@shubhamchatterjee4642 phele assembly hoga uske baad manufacturing bhi start hojayega keep faith on the new BHARAT

[@shubhamchatterjee4642]

@@shivamagarwal2460 Yeh new bharat purane jaisa hi hai abhi. New Bharat tab kehna jab microprocessor bharat me hi kisi bharatiya company ke dwara designed ho , aur bhi accha ho agar wo microprocessor bharat me manufacture hua ho.

[@shivamagarwal2460]

@@shubhamchatterjee4642 everything takes time buddy

[@Lalit-yw2tb]

More power to them. Such a cool product from an Indian company. Wish them all the success. This would actually be a really good dev server for handling your web apps or even a simple home automation system.

[@GareebScientist]

Ha home automation plus practice Instead of renting a vm to learn about code deployments, load testing etc, this would be a cheaper Power effecient mini pc

[@deeptobhattacharyya3249]

PCEI hona game changer hai, NAS setup build karke maza ayega

[@GareebScientist]

ye ab sab boards pe aya hein na , this patticular way of pcie

[@AdarshMadrecha]

I am also thinking of NAS. But not sure if I can put more HHD

[@i_Kruti]

​@@AdarshMadrechayou can use NVMe to SATA converter....!! Only thing is you have to manage the power.....how will you supply power to all that HDD/SSD ......Either using a jankier solution by using a PSU/SMPS or any thing else.....!!!

[@i_Kruti]

Yeah....!!! You can totally build a Small size portable NAS just like Jeff Geerling does in his channel...but not a full fledged high performance Home Server what I need....!!!😞

[@ayushsingh1943]

@@AdarshMadrecha what is NAS

[@TigerCraft79]

Glad to see my city develop a lot, for a tier 2 city

[@amiteshsingh5033]

Surat is gonna be a serious competitor to all tier 2 cities in a decade. It's the fastest growing city economy in India, and ranks in the top 10 fastest growing cities globally. In a couple of decades, Surat might challenge the likes of Bengaluru or Pune, and might be counted in the top 5 cities of India. I did my undergrad there. The road infrastructure is miles better than all tier 2 cities.

[@ExMuslimProphetMuhammad]

Man we need this in Mumbai too

[@Aryanbhosale436]

Thanks to modi, trying to shift mumbai's power towards Gujarat though it's not just about mumbai but it's about destabilizing economic capital of your own country instead of devloping regions parallely keeping aside favouritism

[@kshitiznavediya2559]

@@Aryanbhosale436 thats the problem .. he is not only pm of gujarat but maharashtra as well..

[@hrushikeshavachat900]

​@Aryanbhosale436 What did Uddhav say about Vadhwan. So, as a businessman, why will I come to Maharshtra if whose government is in power decides the major projects in the state. Me pn Maharashtrian ahe. But practically vichar kela pahije.

[@Noval01rd]

Kuch samaj me nahi aya lekin sun ke acha laga 😂😂

[@7056radhe]

You watch reels, he watches reels

[@Noval01rd]

@@7056radhe He's from the field. I'm not. But I support GS anyways. I just watched the video coz he was giving some info n I respect that.

[@user-pr9tt3mt1u]

I work with raspberry pi from 2015 from high school.I will surely buy such a board when launched. Even though community support exist for pi,open source contributors are in large numbers in india.The need for such a product in India is also very high among engineering and research students and atal innovation mission will certainly play a role. But the point is we need a stronger community which only someone such as you @gareeb Scientist could pull off.

[@christianrodrigues344]

Informative video , keep it up bro🔥

[@souviksantra8805]

Seems very interesting and glad to know that my country is gaining power gradually in the electronics industry. I work with Raspberry Pi and tried all versions of it. The Raspberry Pi 4 is the most popular so far because of wide software and community support. I did try Raspberry Pi 5. The hardwares are upgraded but it lags in terms of software support. So, I hope the company Bicharak will launch the final product with the wide variety of software support, so that it can beat R pi

[@omdevs]

Amazing video! Keep up the great work!

[@rikilshah]

I am from Surat and Have talked with Akshar about the board. Such an intelligent guy and tried the product too. Really cool product! ❤

[@RavenThunderclaw]

Guys we are the people who can create a community that can help support this product. Japan has had many local products supported by the Japanese initiallyand many of them are now popular worldwide. Agar hum bahar walo ke validation and support ke liye wait karenge to wo kabhi nahi aaega. Chinese SBCs ka special disadvantage ye tha ki bhut saare documentation and support forums chinese me the. This board has been in my radar for some time. I wish more people will buy and we can have a homegrown product with good support and availability.

[@StarnikBayley]

for that, we need a pcb fab in india where we can send our designs and manufacture 5 pcbs in less than rs. 500, like jlcpcb. also, we need components supplier like rtc, bms, etc. we can start by developing cheap, designed and manufactured in india microcontroller development kits like arduino for less than rs. 500. its possible because mcu's like atmega only cost around $2. then the chain reaction will start, and we will be building our own sbcs, mobile phones, electronic appliances in no time.. hardware is not harder than software, its just that its inaccessible in india.

[@howdoyoudoit3499]

Thank you bro for covering this type of products....

[@petreoticminecrafteshorts]

Amazing design 😮 0:13

[@oundhakar]

This is a very exciting development. Love to see an Indian company enter the SBC space.

[@pixelbyaj]

I am happy to see we getting to this part of tech.

[@sanjaybhatikar]

Wow! Thanks for sharing.

[@sandm4n]

Cool! Gonna keep an eye out for it.

[@chaitanyakiran]

Good to see indian company, now i will try this board

[@LifeGeneralist]

Fantastic product and thank you for this video

[@abhiiyenger1294]

Thanks a lot for making this video. So much details in it. This is so much better than Pi

[@NishantSingh-px3jm]

Really excited for it, hope so it doesn't disappear

[@SKHROSX]

Really happy to see such products.

[@adityashukla7849]

Interesting. I'll definitely buy this.

[@viveknarwaria158]

so interested and will try it soon

[@rahulrahangdale1787]

Achha lgta hai bhai ye dekhkrr ki these companies doing better ❤❤

[@rahuls4863]

Really good work.

[@themillionairetrader8232]

really awesome!!

[@JohnJohn-dc7id]

Interesting. Good video

[@theinvisibleghost141]

All in one solution. Well explained...

[@ninadtaralekar]

Amazing work for the hardware development of the segments.. so proud to see the Bharatiya design. Thank you for sharing the product details..

[@yogeshchaudhary2093]

Even though I didn't understand a single thing, I love that our nation is working on these kind of things. Since, I don't understand chip design and architecture can some please share anything where I can learn about it.

[@prasaddd]

Amazing information

[@khanbasharat]

Nice initiative.

[@gaathastory]

Nice review, well covered. Good to see a locally made/ assembled SBC. Price should work out to about 14,000 INR (500 pre booking + ₹11,599+ GST) from their website. Fair for the specifications.

[@i_Kruti]

7:10 Ethernet use nahi kia...??

[@coermech9620]

This is incredible news!

[@debashisraykarmakar836]

Very Very Interesting

[@nikhil_jadhav]

Awesome, Now I want to try it, build my own PC. There's a great business opportunity if someone starts assembling all homegrown parts to build a fully Indian laptops which can be sold at relatively low prices.

[@earth2k66]

Ngl, cheap laptops with ARM processors would be really cool. And if they put rk3588 inside, it would be a beast.

[@PramochanYaan]

Interesting!!!!

[@GareebScientist]

Ikrr

[@kapilmeetsingh3702]

just amazing

[@rkvrakav]

Glad to see these activities initiated in India... I am fascinated and want to contribute to these area...

[@theproudsanatanikafir6656]

Bohot badhiya he

[@BR-fl8fh]

wow good I will must use support made in India product ❤

[@steamerSama]

Amazing, amazing news. Beauty is its 15k ₹, which for a first gen product is pretty competitive for the features

[@yugalsharma13]

Amazing!

[@debashisraykarmakar836]

I would definitely buy one once comes in production

[@meLokeshRawat]

I think the price is good for what they offer I will try purchasing one if possible

[@Vikash_1.0]

First I found this video boring, but when I started It hooked me 😊

[@osyl8]

wow this is amazing.

[@ArunavaNandy]

Please continue your work of reviewing bharatiya innovative products. Power to you.

[@sushrutshimpi7513]

Thanks

[@GareebScientist]

Thanks Sushrut! 🚀

[@SoumyaMaitra2008]

Awesomely!!!

[@nandans2506]

Might get one of these..... Would be running my game server in local network probably

[@ripper5941]

I think this could be very much worth it for doing stuff like homelab, docker, kubernetes, networking, and for prototyping dev work. Looking forward to try it out.

[@keerthannk5053]

Iam very great full for information , As a robotic engineering student it is great honor of buying indian product it is best for robotics control system.

[@StupidVetala]

I already have a homelab setup on raspberry Pi 5, would absolutely love to have this as well.

[@user-qi9ez8ne5y]

I am also looking forward to make my own homelab... If possible, pls share some details / photos of your Lab

[@dvdd1139]

Bahut accha laga: eh bhi kar denge.....

[@vikaspoddar9456]

We want more deep tech videos in computation space

[@Betelgeusewaitforit]

A very potent platform for various workloads.. Iska cluster Kubernetes laga ke dala.. bawaal board hai.. Yeh Edge Data Centre ke liye perfect hai.. including IoT use cases. I will buy this above rpi anyday..

[@gammadas]

Way to go Indian developers! You make me feel so proud! I cannot wait to get my hands on one and play with it. I bet this will also be much cheaper than the Raspberry Pi.

[@saumyashhah]

Refreshing to see an Indian company, I would happily pay 2-3K to support an India company. And about cameras, you should try Frigate NVR. It uses NPU to do object recognition. Not sure if current NPU is supported but can be a great use case.

[@praj4862]

Great Product

[@lostin_code]

definitely waiting for the launch as soon as it launches i will try it will release some good Linux distro to make sure it gets some global coverage

[@drushed7387]

when i clicked on this video i expected a risc V based board entirely made in india, this is just another rock pi, but with extra ports and features it can compete good with others. just hope this has good software community

[@BYD-z2r]

We are committed to building a reputable product and contributing positively to our industry. If there are concerns about our practices, we urge you to reconsider. We have been part of this company for the past three years, delivering on our promises consistently and exceeding expectations. Mr. Nitinkumar, if you have doubts, please refrain from casting aspersions. Instead, we invite you to support new startups in India, contributing to our country's pride.

[@chandrasekhar-qb7wh]

Proud to see so many companies are making chips for pc,s . this will help us on long run

[@anujmchitale]

The company mentioned in the video isn't making chips. It is assembling the chips and components ordered from vendors from other countries.

[@chandrasekhar-qb7wh]

@@anujmchitale today it started with assembling , i hope technology of making it will come soon to our country .

[@anujmchitale]

@@chandrasekhar-qb7wh I would like that as well. But working in the semiconductor industry I can safely say that it's not going to happen for the next decade or even more.

[@sujalgupta6774]

I damnnn want this

[@Technical_Guruji]

Recently working on Orange Pi 5 plus for AOSP customization. Its very challenging to find MIPI display, camera adapter and cables. Looking forward work on made in india board.

[@killingmachinelp]

Nice. How good would it be as a personal nas or cloud storage device?

[@durjaypramanik4368]

Mazaa agaya

[@CircuitCreator]

Oh, brilliant! The first Indian single-board computer is finally here. 😲 Just what I needed! Too bad my bank account is laughing at me. 🥺

[@jugnu361]

I USE PI4 FOR INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM OEM MACHINE ETC , I WILL USE THIS BOARD WHEN AVAILABLE

[@rajatmond]

15 - 16000 is very good considering the big.little arch, throughput of 3 USB-Cs, NVME slot and HDMI pass-through. I hope the exposed pins are hooked up to a few SPI, I2C and interrupt/DMA controllers along with the UART you mentioned. I will buy one when it hits the market. As Indian companies are getting into hardware, we should also be concerned with privacy. As these gain more popularity, our government will also try to make them add backdoors and force them into performing all kinds of surveillances. I can see that modded kernel is open source, and we should make sure it stays that way.

[@massiah1298]

Will love to use it as a personal server... plus as a iot device... too powerful

[@SushanthSomayaji]

There are 2 problem with this SBC, namely: 1. Software support: Rockchip usually dont have good Linux kernel support. For that matter none of the ARM SOCs have good support except for RPi. There is no Widevine support if you wish to use it as a low power desktop and watch Netflix or PrimeVideo. 2. Cost: For 12000/- you can get a 5-6 gen Intel CPU with board, RAM to use as NAS or desktop with better software support. For 6k more you can get a 12th gen with 8GB RAM and 256GB NvME SSD which without RAM or storage will cost you 13000. It doesnt make sense for any group of enthusiasts

[@AffectionateBeignets-mx2qd]

Agree with first point but don't think anyone buys sbc to replace pc

[@SushanthSomayaji]

​@@AffectionateBeignets-mx2qdagreed but no one buys a 12000 rs sbc just to create a cool project with. There are better and cheaper options for that.

[@arbjful]

@@AffectionateBeignets-mx2qd there are some applications where SBC is better suited, like standalone CNC controller

[@StarnikBayley]

​@@SushanthSomayaji mini-pcs dosen't have GPIO pins, or the csi/dsi connectors. mini pcs are basically "mini pc" with only usb ports. sbc are normally for IoT projects which involves sensors, actuators, etc. and this board is a big win with so many io options at a relatively good price. however, its hard to judge the board at beta phase. i think the price is going to increase when it gets officially released.😅

[@i_Kruti]

At this point i just want a ARM based Workstation/Server grade motherboard for my homelab.....!!!🤞🏻

[@i_Kruti]

6:05 Yes.....!!! RAM issue are real issue.... if we see in smart phones also I have Galaxy J6+ which has 4 core with 4 GB RAM and my father has Galaxy A10 which has 8 core but with 2 GB RAM....and to my surprise I saw my phone works way better and smoother than my father's one....!!

[@vishwamartur]

We can work on with Yocto images Please give more updates on FPGA's

[@sanketsbrush8790]

I hope we'll be able to make made in India indian company's GPUs in near future ♥

[@priyanshuroy8830]

We need more and more SBC like this with different and customisable configuration . Ofcourse every project donot need high end specs bit I think this board is quite value for money for robotics and all. but they need to add more I/O pins for more sensors comtability , bcz you cannot do everything based on 7 seven cameras .

[@Darksilver6000]

bro I went through their vaaman board it has 100 I/O pins and it has FPGA so all of them are reconfigurable plz tell me if its good by looking at their docs i am planning to buy it.

[@priyanshuroy8830]

I think their Vaaman board is also very good and as per their documents most of the pins are reconfigurable

[@youtube.user.1234]

This is great, do they have any lower powered SBCs under 10k?

[@prashanthb6521]

16K Rs is expensive. I would rather run an old core2duo instead of this which is available at 3K Rs used. But I am happy Indians have started working on SBCs.

[@GareebScientist]

Over time core2duo would cost more due to Power consumption. This idle is 5-4ws with way more power then a core 2 duo. Plus space,

[@Sayan_Shankhari]

compare with server boards

[@R0CKYBAHI]

RK3588S moq 1000 cost around 60$ PCBA would come to be another 30 - 40$ so approx 10-12K is a decent price, there are other vendors with rk3588s like khadas edge2 with 3 cam which cost 260$

[@GareebScientist]

Ha even rock pi is so expensive. Why though. Orange pi still fine

[@Amog_98]

4:40 when you lose the screw, just put a Electric Tape on the end of it, it will secure it very well, even i did for so many times.

[@aperson9375]

Please review the production version once become available... Wow.

[@SandeepKumar-qh3zs]

I have started to use rockchip based android tv boxes and install linux (armbian) on it. For around ₹2000, it is a very good Raspberry Pi alternative unless you need camera and gpio access. Some boards come with just 1GB of RAM, however some have true 4GB RAM which is more than sufficient for network based projects and IoT applications

[@earth2k66]

Awesome, can you tell me which Android box you are using and with which Arabian image? Bruh, I want a TV box to run linux too.

[@SandeepKumar-qh3zs]

@@earth2k66 I am currently using Tx9 pro which has RK3229 chipset. I don't remember which version of armbian I have installed but it works without any issue. You can also use H96 max tv boxes which have 4GB ram (from aliexpress or banggood)

[@SandeepKumar-qh3zs]

​​@@earth2k66one more thing is avoid those boxes that mention mxq pro, v88 .. those have unsupported, outdated amlogic chipsets and fake their storage and ram capacities. Before installing, install device info hw apk and check the specifications

[@gamekillerx3508]

Can you tell what happened to Shakti processor

[@Aditya-wi5ei]

Ye to achi bate hai raspberry Pi se better product hai and abhi new aya hai to price bhi relatively kam hoga😊

[@anilv3724]

They should have used 40 PIN GPIO following Raspberry Pi since this will ensure a lot of compatible devices

[@VaibhavShewale]

ooh man, need to ge back to rasberry hing. i left it way back ab phir se use karna hoga cause i need to make some automation and this thing will work wonder

[@VicariousxD]

I haven't heard of this board yet, but I hope it becomes a success. As for the price, it is comparable to Radxa Rock 5A (Radxa is available for 7.5k + shipping and tax from arace) but I guess costlier than Orange pi 5 plus (Orange pi 5 plus is 99$, comes to about 14k with shipping and taxes) but Orange pi has a better SOC (rk 3588 has more pci lanes than rk 3588s). Best part is, both rk 3588 and rk 3588s are getting linux mainline kernel support, so hopefully no proprietary drivers and patches needed. The multimedia capabilities are excellent (4k 30 hevc and avc encoding, 8k 30 hevc, vp9 and avc decoding). This is the main difference between raspberry pi 5 and this SOC. Pi 5 doesn't even have avc decoder and depends on CPU for it. None of the raspberry pis have hevc encoding support. So for anyone having projects involving remote video acquisition and transmission, this SOC is far superior than Raspberry pi alternatives.

[@GareebScientist]

Fair fair. Problem is orange plus taxes and shipping you also might end up paying heavy customs. Which you see soke people have payed in comments

[@VicariousxD]

@@GareebScientist i have rock pi 5a and I costed me 9~10k on discount on chinese new year ordered from arace. Orange pi is available via rees52 and radxa rock pi via rs components, both are official channels and you don't pay anything extra other than what is mentioned on checkout. I have ordered multiple products from rs components and they have a warehouse in noida and ships from UK.

[@561_dhruvsinghbora2]

big fan sir