Following on from the Google AIY Projects created
and launched earlier this year to help makers experiment with and learn about
artificial intelligence and the release of the first AIY Voice Kit, which was
also available from the Raspberry Pi Foundation on an issue of their awesome
Raspberry Pi Magazine back in May.
Google has today announced that the latest
AIY Project, the Vision Kit is now available to preorder through Micro Center
and will be available in stores during December 2017. Don’t forget you will
also need a Raspberry Pi Zero W, Raspberry Pi Camera and a micro SD card, all
of which which must be purchased separately, unless you have them already.
The main component of the AIY Vision Kit is the
VisionBonnet board for Raspberry Pi, which features the Intel Movidius MA2450,
a low-power vision processing unit capable of running neural network models
on-device. The kit includes a cardboard outer shell, the VisionBonnet circuit
board, an RGB arcade-style button, a piezo speaker, a macro/wide lens kit, a
tripod mounting nut and other connecting components.
