MaixCAM: Risc-V (and not only!) Development Board with SOPHGO SG2002 AI SoC

Sipeed MaixCAM, RISC-V AI camera devkit with 4MP camera, 2.3-inch color touchscreen display and wireless capabilities. The board is on based on SOPHGO SG2002 RISC-V (and Arm, and 8051) SoC. In this video I explore its specs, hardware, and built-in demo applications, including object detection and image classification capabilities plus OpenMV image processing functions. Stay tuned for part 2 where we dive into coding your own AI applications for the MaixCAM!
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[@BogdanMnikov]

Keep it going! Looking forward for the second part

[@Hardwareai]

Coming out in two weeks!

[@cipanmandul]

Thank you! I almost buying Sipeed Maix-II dock until I found this video.

[@Hardwareai]

MaixCam is absolutely better choice at the moment. Maix-II was nice at the time, but then the chip shortage happened. Current LTS product for Sipeed is MaixCam as they told me.

[@levbereggelezo]

thanks for the information, we are waiting for the second part

[@Hardwareai]

You are welcome!

[@nhannguyenthanh46]

I orderred it from China. Maybe I will get it in this weekend. My idea is a compact camera with I/O + Ethernet Port + HDMI ( I see LicheeRV-Nano-E, however to be confused by Sipeed's comparison table ). this is my starting with Sipeed's product. Hope it will be good. Thanks for your quick review. Looking forward your next review.

[@Hardwareai]

Nice! LicheeRV-Nano is based on the same chip, but won't be getting same level of software support, e.g. MaixVision IDE. Theoretically you can develop the same capabilities from scratch using SOPHGO resources.

[@shakhizatnurgaliyev9355]

Хороший выпуск, Дима!keep it up!

[@Hardwareai]

Спасибо! I will!

[@AntonMaltsev]

Thank you for the video! I'll wait for the next one. I had a terrible experience with the Milk-V DUO board (I explain it a bit more in my video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpysh3eFmcR5l5Y ). It has the same SG2002 inside. It's super interesting to see how Seeed Studio worked with the same problems. Is there a good toolchain that works out of the box? Is there good accessibility to running a native model, etc.? But in terms of price/speed/ability to run, fp16 SG2002 looks great.

[@shakhizatnurgaliyev9355]

I know you man!!😆🤣

[@Hardwareai]

Yeah, from what I see the software experience is much better with this one. Sipeed had spent plenty of time (maybe even too much? I will talk about why I think it might be too much in the next video) working on their (C/C++ and Python) SDKs and even homegrown IDE, so many things just work, at least for getting started example 100%. Btw, it is Sipeed board, not Seeed Studio. Seeed probably resells it as well, or at least they used to resell Sipeed boards, but it is a different company, a bit smaller in size.

[@AntonMaltsev]

​@@Hardwareaiyeah, sometimes I get the two companies mixed up:) I'll be looking forward to the next video!

[@amorpheuses1627]

Got one off of aliexpress - looks nice. You should probably power down using the settings menu power down command (as recommended) - ask me how I know.

[@Hardwareai]

As recommended. I'll guess - you bricked it :)

[@amorpheuses1627]

@@Hardwareai Didn't brick it - but destroyed the OS on the sdcard. Had to reflash.

[@nuanda82]

Nice!

[@Hardwareai]

Thanks! I agree.

[@gabrieloscarwolhein2721]

How much is the energy consumption?

[@Hardwareai]

With the screen and camera: idle around 1W, under load (NN inference) around 1.5W. Numbers are provided by Sipeed.

[@Alice8000]

This guy disabled his dislike button. what a snowflake.

[@Hardwareai]

Maybe you disabled it yourself? afaik creators can't disable the dislike button. Currently this video has 224 likes and 5 dislikes.

[@Alice8000]

@@Hardwareai it says Disabled by Owner. oh yea maybe you're right. i can't see the like count either. I guess i'm the idiot here.

[@Hardwareai]

No need to be so harsh on yourself or others ;)

[@Alice8000]

@@Hardwareai i just like to cause trouble online

[@ensembleee1180]

안녕. 나는 초보자야. 이 maixcam을 구입해서 사용하는데 App 에러가 발생해. App Detector Error라는 팝업이 나오는데 그 내용은 app exit with code:1 이야. 혹시 문제 해결을 알려줄 수 있어?

[@Hardwareai]

Sorry, my Korean is not great (jk, I don't speak Korean at all :( using google translate). I suggest you ask at Sipeed forum maixhub.com/share ? I have not seen this particular error myself.