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Ardunio IDE 2.0 is finally here with new features and enhanced UI

Posted on by Rakesh Kumar, Ph.D.

The beta version of Arduino IDE 2.0 was released in 2021 and is now available to download in its stable version. Various feedback and input from multiple stakeholders of the Arduino Community have enabled the makers to launch the stable version. The backbone of Arduino IDE 2.0 is the open-source project Eclipse Theia Framework.

This blog article will take you through the various features of the Arduino 2.0 IDE.

  • Sketchbook: The sketchbook allows you to access the .ino files directly with a few clicks. The folder icon on the sidebar allows for this.
  • Boards Manager:  This new IDE offers straightforward access to the board manager on the front end of the IDE itself. In the earlier version, a user had to go all the way to settings and enable the board.
  • Library Manager: Libraries often include many third-party extensions, making life easier working with Arduino. As this feature is often used, it is a good idea to make it into the sidebar of the IDE.
  • Debugger: This is a new and much-needed feature for the Arduino community. Especially for beginners who are lost in the maze of coding and unable to figure out where their potential flaws are lying hidden, this feature offers much breathing space.
  • Search: The last of the tools in the sidebar is the simple yet powerful “Search.” One can use this feature to find any snippets of the coding.
  • Serial Monitor: Remember using a separate window while trying to open Serial Monitor? Now the Serial Monitor is integrated with the IDE at the bottom. This offers the IDE and the Serial Monitor a compact look.
  • Serial Plotter: With the help of Serial Plotter, it is easy to visualize data in graphs. In their visual form, the graphs offer many insights into the data and derive meaningful conclusions from it.
  • Autocompletion: This is a feature that I like, which allows for faster coding typing. What it does is that it suggests all the possible variables and functions while one is typing them. This also allows for fewer typos in the code which is quite common for a beginner and often annoying.
  • Themes: Needless to say, the themes play a prominent role in user experience, and the new editor has ensured that Arduino IDE 2.0 offers a range of themes, including the often-used Dark Mode.

Overall, this improved editor has a responsive interface that offers the programmer a better user interface. The compilation time has also been reworked to make it faster than its older counterpart. Another good thing about this new version is that it can update on its own without the need for manually downloading the more recent version and installing them. So hassle-free updates!

Download the all-new Arduino IDE 2.0 here.

ODROID H3 and H3+ Boards Come with Intel Jasper Lake Quad-Core Processors

Posted on by Emmanuel Odunlade

Last year, when Hardkernel decided to discontinue the production of the ODROID-H2+ SBC as a result of the global chip shortage currently faced by the IoT market, we thought that was the end for that line of boards, little did we know that the company had a lot up their sleeves.

We are pleased to inform you that Hardkernel has now brought back the ODROID H-series with not just one, but two new single-board computers based on 10nm Intel Jasper Lake quad-core CPUs: the ODROID-H3 and ODROID-H3+ SBCs.

The ODROID-H3 is powered by a 2.9 GHz Intel Celeron N5105 quad-core processor with 24EU Intel UHD graphics @ up to 800 MHz while the ODROID H3+ is based on a 3.3 GHz Pentium N6005 quad-core processor with 32EU Intel UHD graphics @ 900 MHz. All other features seem to be the same for the two; they both support up to 64GB RAM, have the same M.2 PCIe Gen 3 socket, and the same 2x 2.5 GbE, 2x SATA ports, 2x USB 3.0 and 2x USB 2.0.

Specifications of the ODROID H3/H3+ Include:

  • Processor
    • ODROID H3 – Intel Celeron N5105 quad-core Jasper Lake processor @ 2.0/2.9 GHz
    • ODROID H3+ – Intel Pentium N6005 quad-core Jasper Lake processor @ 2.0/3.3 GHz
  • Graphics
    • ODROID H3 – 24EU Intel UHD Graphics @ 450/800 MHz
    • ODROID H3+ – 32EU Intel UHD Graphics @ 450/900 MHz
  • Dual channel SO-DIMM DDR4 memory with up to 64GB RAM (2933 MT/s)
  • eMMC flash support
  • 2x SATA 3.0 ports
  • PCIe 3.0 x4 lanes for one M.2 NVMe storage
  • Dual 2.5 GbE ports
  • 2x USB 3.0 ports, 2x USB 2.0 ports
  • 2x I2C, 1x UART, 3x USB 2.0, 1x HDMI CEC, 1x external power button
  • Standard 12V PWM fan header
  • Audio: HDMI, audio jacks for HP, MIC and S/PDIF
  • Video Outputs: HDMI 2.0 and DP 1.2
  • Power Supply: 14V to 20V DC power input
  • Dimension: 110 mm x 110 mm
  • Security: fTPM enabled
  • Operating System: Windows, Linux, BSD, Android
  • Certifications: FCC/CE/KC/RoHS

Compared with the ODROID-H2+, these new models are actually more powerful and offer higher performance with a larger memory capacity, more advanced IO ports and significantly faster Intel CPUs and graphics processors. The performance was even doubled in some cases.

Here‘s a table that describes how far apart the boards are from one another:

Features ODROID H2+ ODROID H3 ODROID H3+
Processor CPU Celeron J4115 Celeron N5105 Pentium Silver N6005
Code Name Gemini Lake Jasper Lake Jasper Lake
Base Frequency 1.8 2.0 (+11%) 2.0 (+11%)
Burst Frequency (Single Thread) (GHz) 2.5 2.9 (+16%) 3.3 (+32%)
Burst Frequency (Multi Thread) (GHz) 2.3 2.6 (+13%) 2.8 (+22%)
Memory Max. Space (GB) 32 64 (+100%) 64 (+100%)
Max. Speed (MT/s) 2400 2933 (+22%) 2933 (+22%)
Graphics Processor Base Frequency (MHz) 250 450 (+80%) 450 (+80%)
Burst Frequency (MHz) 750 800 (+7%) 900 (+20%)
PCIe (via NVMe Adapter) Generation 2 3 3
Max. Transfer Rate (GT/s) 5.0 8 (+60% more) 8 (+60% more)
Max. Throughput x4 (GB/s) 2 3.94 (+97%) 3.94 (+97%)
Security TPM 2.0 fTPM disabled fTPM enabled (this ensures that Windows 11 can run)

 

Meanwhile, the H3 and H3+ are compatible with the H2+ meaning you can reuse the same enclosures and add-on boards. The ODROID H3 sells for $129 while the H3+ goes for a higher price of $165.

Other useful details on the boards, including instructions on installing OS, can be found on a Wiki page. There’s a forum post that also talked extensively about them.

Smart Bee Designs’ Bee Motion S3 development board comes with motion detection sensor

Posted on by Abhishek Jadhav

Bee Motion S3 development board

We recently covered a new board from the Smart Bee Designs– Bee S3 low power development board, which equips ESP32-S3 system-on-chip for home applications and hobbyist use cases. The manufacturer is planning to launch another similar development board but expects community support for Crowdfunding. Smart Bee Designs’ Bee Motion S3 will soon go live on CrowdSupply, and if you are interested in the project, feel free to sign up on the product page to get notified whenever there is an update.

Even the Bee Motion S3 holds the famous Espressif’s ESP32-S3 system-on-chip, but this development board comes with a built-in PIR motion sensor. This enables users to build applications that require motion detection and can be easily deployed in the evolving IoT ecosystem. The hardware is designed to have a small form factor and can be seamlessly integrated into the embedded device edge use cases.

Specifications of Bee Motion S3 development board:

  • SoC: Espressif ESP32-S3 system-on-chip
  • CPU: A dual-core XTensa LX7 microcontroller unit running at a clock frequency of up to 240MHz
  • Memory: 512kB of SRAM
  • Wireless connectivity: IEEE802.11b/g/n, 2.4GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5 Low Energy
  • GPIOs: 45 programmable general-purpose input/output pins
  • Onboard sensor: PIR sensor and ambient light sensor
  • LED: RGB light-emitting diodes
  • Battery: LiPo charging circuitry
  • Interfaces: Stemma connector for breakout boards
  • Software: Arduino, MicroPython, and Circuit Python

As an open-source project, the manufacturer does not provide cloud services to protect sensor data privacy. This gives total control over the hardware platform with secure data transmission for further processing. Interestingly, Bee Motion S3 comes with a LiPo charging circuitry that allows developers to use the battery for power supply and deploy them in remote critical IoT applications.

For those building home applications, motion detection and ambient light sensors are essential components of the use case. Bee Motion S3 has an onboard PIR motion detection sensor and a battery-operated night light sensor. Several applications can be designed using these two onboard sensors and leveraging support for rich wireless connectivity.

One of the highlights of the board, given its compact form factor, is the onboard Stemma connector. This enables developers and hobbyists to interface breakout boards and external sensors from Adafruit and SparkFun embedded device manufacturers. Since the open-source project is yet to go live, head to the product page for more information.

Flavio Ansovini’s Ochin Compute Module 4 carrier board with rich interfaces

Posted on by Abhishek Jadhav

There have already been a ton of carrier boards specially designed to hold the famous Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. Yet another interesting tiny carrier board from designer Flavio Ansovini comes onto the market, sold on Seeed Studio. This tiny Ochin carrier board for Raspberry Pi Compute Model 4 is equipped with the powerful Quad-core Cortex A72 CPU and GPU, featuring a significant RAM size, CODECs, and graphic accelerators. For applications where there is limited space and weight containment is crucial, the carrier board’s tiny form factor is quite appealing. The carrier board is intended for many applications, including IoT, robotics, and home automation.

All Raspberry Pi CM4 is supported with an eMMC storage compatible with the board, allowing a transfer rate of up to 100 MB/s, which is four times as fast as CM3+. Depending on your requirements, you can choose a CM4 module with an SDRAM starting at 1GB up to 8GB and an eMMC at 8GB up to 32GB, with or without Wi-Fi and BT4 connectivity.

Specifications of the Ochin CM4 carrier board:

  • Processor: Quad-core Cortex-A72, ARM v8 64-bit SoC clocked at up to 1.5GHz, and a Broadcom BCM2711
  • Resolution: H.265 (HEVC) up to 4Kp60 decode, H.264 (up to 1080p60 decode, 1080p30 encode)
  • Graphics: OpenGL ES 3.0
  • Camera interface: 1x 2-lane MIPI CSI camera port and 1x 4-lane MIPI CSI camera port
  • Serial communication: 1x USART, 3x UART, 1x I2C port, 1x SPI port
  • USB ports: 1x USB 2.0 port
  • Power: 7.5V to 28V with support for 2S to 6S lithium-polymer batteries
  • Dimensions: 55x40x4.7 mm

One of the major highlights of the Ochin CM4 carrier board is the small form factor, which is almost of the same size as the original Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. This reduces the overall footprint to result in a more compact form factor suitable for its integration into other embedded devices. Furthermore, the hardware is tested to work with the open-source software, OpenHD that allows the transmission of a low-latency HD video stream from a mobile station to a ground station.

The board is available for purchase at the Seeed Studio for $59.90, excluding the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. Also, a quick start guide on flashing the CM4 module, a manual for the board, and some tips on how to connect to the Ochin board can be found in their GitHub repository.

Pine64 announces Ox64, a dual-core single-board computer powered by the Bouffalo Lab BL808

Posted on by Abhishek Jadhav

Pine64 has announced an all-new RISC-V-based single-board computer, Ox64. The single-board computer is powered by the Bouffalo Lab BL808 system-on-chip and is manufactured with a breadboard-friendly form factor. At the heart of the board is a system-on-chip that makes use of an uncommon design, with one 64-bit and one 32-bit RISC-V processor core.

Inside the Ox64 single-board computer, the Bouffalo Lab BL808 system-on-chip integrates a 64-bit RISC-V CPU and a 32-bit CPU. The 64-bit processor comes from Alibaba’s T-Head C906 64-bit RISC-V core, and the first core has a maximum clock speed of 480MHz. Meanwhile, the second core is a T-Head E907 32-bit RISC-V core operating at 320MHz. The two are separate yet linked by sharing the board’s integrated 64MB PSRAM.

Pine64 Ox64 single-board computer

For expansion, the board has 26 GPIO pins including SPI, I2C, and UART functionality. It has a built-in MJPEG and h.264 encoder that can handle resolutions of up to 1920 x 1080 at 30 frames per second. Furthermore, it provides a possible expansion of I2S and GMII.

The hardware platform also offers a 5-pin JTAG header for debugging and an OTG port for USB 2.0 that supports a dual-lane MIPI Camera Serial Interface (CSI) for an optional camera module which includes a microphone and speaker. All of this, along with many other peripherals, makes it easier to integrate the Ox64 SBC with sensors and other devices.

The Ox64 has an onboard XSPI NOR flash storage of up to 16MB or 128MB. In addition, it has a MicroSD slot, which supports SDHC and SDXC cards. The single-board computer also has a microcontroller with a RAM of 64MB and features Bouffalo’s BLAI-100, an AI engine for video and audio detection.

The board is compatible with Bluetooth 5.2, IEEE802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, and Zigbee as standard connectivity options. Pine64 has confirmed that the board features a 10/100 Ethernet socket for wired connections. The tiny board measuring 51 x 21 x 19 mm attributes a power supply of 5V/0.5A via the USB type-C port.

More information on the Ox64 single-board computer can be accessed from Pine64’s wiki page.

Olimex releases the ESP32-C3-DevKit-LiPo board featuring a low-power RISC-V processor core

Posted on by Abhishek Jadhav

Olimex ESP32-C3-DevKit-LiPo Board

Olimex has launched a new ESP32-C3-DevKit-LiPo board built around Espressif’s ESP32-C3 RISC-V processor chip. The development board offers rich wireless connectivity with support for Wi-Fi 4 and Bluetooth 5.0, along with some input/output ports– USB and JTAG.

On the development board is the RISC-V-based system-on-chip, ESP32-C3, a low-power processor clocked at up to a frequency of 160MHz. The system-on-chip is tightly integrated with 400kB of SRAM, 384kB of ROM, and 8kB of additional SRAM in the real-time clock (RTC), and 4MB of embedded flash storage. The ESP32-C3-DevKit-LiPo offers up to 15 general-purpose input/output pins for expansion along with an ICSP connector for reflashing or debugging the bootloader through a JTAG interface.

Olimex describes the ESP32-C3-DevKit-LiPo as an “entry-level RISC-V board”. It comes with an onboard PCB antenna for 2.4GHz IEEE802.11/b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5 connectivity, and an integrated lithium-polymer battery management system with a status LED and a reset button.

For programming, the development board comes with a single USB Type-C port, which is one of the most famous and demanded USB ports in the maker community. Furthermore, it offers a power supply of 5V via the USB Type-C port and has a 2-pin header for the LiPo battery that supports charging. As the ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo development board has the ESP32-C3 microcontroller, it supports various frameworks and languages such as Arduino, PlatformIO, Espressif ESP-IDF, and others.

Olimex ESP32-C3-DevKit-LiPo

Under the “CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 – Strongly Reciprocal”, the board’s open-source hardware and KiCad schematics, the PCB layout along with the ESP32-C3 datasheet, and the technical reference manual have been released on GitHub.

Additionally, Shteryana Shopova used the board for a RISC-V workshop in Bulgaria, where participants could learn how to use the ESP-IDF with a C sample, JTAG debugging with OpenOCD, and she even demonstrated some inline RISC-V assembly in the C code as well as some Bluetooth demo apps. There is also a basic ESP32-C3-DevKit-LiPo user manual on GitHub.

The ESP32-C3-DevKit-LiPo development board is priced at €6 (which is approximately around $5.80) and can be ordered from the Olimex store. For more information on the specifications of the board, kindly visit the product page at Olimex.

Adafruit Redesigns the INA219 Power-Monitoring FeatherWing Due to Component Shortages

Posted on by Emmanuel Odunlade

It’s been well over a year now that the IoT market has been battling against the ongoing industry-wide component shortages and this has no doubt caused huge financial losses for companies served by these chips. While this global crisis continues to linger on with no certainty as to when it is likely to end, electronic industries are beginning to find ways to bring relief to their operations.

Adafruit has now updated its INA219 FeatherWing designed for power monitoring applications, retaining all the features of the original design but giving it an accuracy that will now vary depending precisely on the parts the company can get its hands on at the time.

“Due to the severe chip shortage, we have had to update this design to use either the INA219A or INA219B and in SOT-23 or SOIC package – whether we are able to get on the market!,” Adafruit writes.

The Adafruit INA219 FeatherWing was designed to solve issues around power monitoring, adding accurate power monitoring to Feather-format projects.

“Instead of struggling with two multimeters,” the company says, “you can just use the handy INA219 chip on this breakout to measure both the high side voltage and DC current draw over I2C with 1 percent precision.” The INA219 FeatherWing is built around Texas Instrument’s INA219 current shunt and power monitoring chip and can work with any and all Feathers including the new Particle Argon, Boron, and Xenon.

The INA219 FeatherWing is super simple to use. It communicates over I2C and it is still possible to change the I2C address to have up to 4 of the Wings on one Feather. The INA219 is smarter than most of the average current-measuring devices which are only good for low-side measuring. For many of them, you may have to stick the measurement resistor between the target ground and true ground, and this can in turn cause problems with circuits as electronics do not like it when ground references change and move with varying current draw. The INA219 however is powered with 3.3V and can handle high-side current measuring up to +26VDC.

Thankfully, the new design did not bring any changes to the device’s operation, so projects and software built around the original design can use any variant of the new design without change. Speaking on the variants of the new design, Adafruit said that

“the A version is ±1 percent total max current measurement error over the entire temp range (±0.5 percent max at 25°C [77°F]) and the B version is ±0.5 percent total max current measurement error over the entire temp range (±0.3 percent max at 25°C [77°F]). Overall functionality is otherwise the same.”

The new design of the INA219 FeatherWing still measures the same 51mm by 22.8mm by 3.6 mm and weighs 3.4g. It is now available in the company’s store for $7.95 with a discount that applies if you are buying more than 10.

Maker Pi PICO Mini is the latest add-on board for Raspberry Pi Pico and Raspberry Pi Pico W 

Posted on by Emmanuel Odunlade

Cytron Technologies, a Malaysian company that specializes in designing boards and modules that help to simplify digital-making processes for makers and developers, has designed a Maker Pi PICO Mini Board aimed at simplifying projects with the Raspberry Pi Pico / Pico W.

Nicknamed “Small but Mighty”, the Maker Pi Pico Mini is designed for portability and can be powered by a LiPo connector, rechargeable via a USB port, and with an over-charge/over-discharge protection circuit. It is just like the $12 Maker Pi Pico board, just that it comes in a much more compact form and can fit into any project.

The Mini board is powered by the Raspberry Pi Pico/Pico W and comes equipped with plenty of useful features such as GPIO status LEDs, WS2812B Neopixel RGB LED, a passive piezo buzzer, a reset, and a user-programmable button.

The board is so small that Cytron said it had to ditch the Grove connectors and replace them with three maker ports for expansion.

“Utilizing the JST-SH 4-way connector, Maker port is compatible with Sparkfun’s Qwiic modules and Adafruit’s STEMMA QT modules,” Cytron explains. “Qwiic and STEMMA QT are using I2C communications and can be daisy-chained. By using the included JST-ST to Grove conversion cables, Maker port is compatible with SeeedStudio’s Grove modules too. Besides I2C, Maker Port also supports UART, Analog input and Digital Input/Output.”

Specifications

  • Powered by RPi Pico / Pico W
  • 1x Passive piezo buzzer
  • 3X maker ports compatible with Qwiic, STEMMA QT, and Grove
  • 2x 20-pin 2.54 mm pitch header on RPi Pico board with 26x GPIOs, 3x ADC, 2x I2C, 2x SPI, 16x PWM, 2x Programmable I/O blocks.
  • 1x RGB LED (WS2812B Neopixel)
  • 6x Status indicator LEDs for GPIO
  • Reset button and User programmable button (1x each)
  • Power: 5V via the micro USB port on the Raspberry Pi Pico W board; 2-pin connector for single-cell LiPo connector with overcharge/over discharge circuit.
  • Dimensions: 53.85 mm x 23.12 mm
  • OS Support: Arduino IDE, CircuitPython and MicroPython

 

Software Support

The Maker Pi PICO Mini board supports multiple programming languages that come with massive library support and examples to get you started with building your application in no time, whether for learning purposes or for building projects. These include Arduino, MicroPython, or CircuitPython

Further Details

More Information on the Maker Pi PICO Mini board, including links to its datasheet, pinout diagram, and getting started page can all be found on Cytron’s online store where the board sells for $8.90 to $14.40 depending on options. The option that comes without a Raspberry Pi Pico/Pico W sells for $8.90 while the pre-soldered RPi Pico variant of the board sells for $11.90 and the pre-soldered RPi Pico W (Wireless) goes for $14.40, both of which is preloaded with Circuit Python.

NVIDIA Releases the Latest Version of the CUDA Toolkit – Version 11.8

Posted on by Emmanuel Odunlade

NVIDIA has released the CUDA Toolkit 11.8, the most recent version of the general-purpose graphics processing unit software. The latest CUDA Toolkit brings a big usability improvement for Jetson owners. It is equipped with new hardware capabilities which aim at speeding up CUDA applications and improving the programming model.

The CUDA Toolkit 11.8 release guarantees simpler and faster upgrades for customers working in the company’s embedded hardware ecosystem. It comes with a compatibility package that makes it easier to upgrade CUDA versions without having to utterly refresh the entire operating system.

“Starting from CUDA 11.8, [NVIDIA] has introduced an upgrade path that provides Jetson developers with an option to update the CUDA driver and the CUDA Toolkit to the latest versions. These upgrades are made possible by the introduction of the CUDA driver upgrade (also referred to as the CUDA compatibility package). Without this package, you were previously limited to the functionality provided by the default CUDA driver that was packaged in the Jetson Linux BSP (Board Support Package). You had no mechanism to upgrade to the latest CUDA driver and toolkit,”

the company explains.

A staff at NVIDIA also hinted that simplifying CUDA upgrades for NVIDIA Jetson users is only the tip of the iceberg as the company is working towards a time when Jetson developers will be able to just migrate to newer versions of the compute libraries without necessarily upgrading Jetson Linux.

“a future where Jetson developers can migrate to newer versions of the compute libraries without upgrading Jetson Linux. This CUDA feature that enables upgrading CUDA is a step in that direction.”

The CUDA Toolkit 11.8 version also comes with other crucial enhancements such as:

  • Support for lazy loading of CPU-side modules. This means functions and libraries will load faster on the CPU side along with reasonable memory footprint reductions, which will thereafter reduce the overall latency.
  • Improved multi-process service (MPS) signal handling – allows you to halt and terminate programs running in MPS environments without affecting other running processes.
  • Enhanced versions of the CUDA developer tools (such as Nsight Compute and Nsight Systems profiling tools) which help to identify and correct performance issues,
  • Support for next-generational NVIDIA Hopper and NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture processor. And,
  • NVIDIA JetPack installation simplification

Further Details

The software developer page of the company has other useful information on the CUDA ToolKit 11.8 including instructions on how to leverage the compatibility package feature to upgrade the CUDA release on any compatible Jetson board.

ArduCam Brings Out New ToF Camera Module for Raspberry Pi

Posted on by Saumitra Jagdale

ArduCam ToF Camera Module

ArduCam is back with yet another camera module for Raspberry Pi with an active Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor for an enhanced 3D Imaging experience. ArduCam’s new ToF camera for Raspberry Pi is now open for crowdfunding on Kickstart with a discounted price of $29.99, and a planned retail price of $50.

The ToF camera module uses a Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) operating at 940nm wavelength. The wavelength being greater than the visible spectrum wavelength, the camera module is prone to interference due to ambient light. Thus, making it suitable for indoor as well as outdoor applications.

The VCSEL, combined with a 240×180-resolution image sensor, offers a frame rate of 30fps on the Raspberry Pi.  The camera module has a diagonal field of view (FOV) of 70°, and can capture depth data up to 2m in “near mode” and 4m in “far mode.” The camera module achieves this by changing the modulation frequency to either 75MHz or 37.5MHz.

Arducam ToF Camera Module for 3D Imaging

The board comes in a small form factor of 38mm x 38mm and low power consumption of 3.5W. Due to its low power requirements, the camera module can be powered through the 5V GPIO supply of the Raspberry Pi as well.

The ToF camera module can be easily interfaced with Raspberry Pi through the MIPI Camera Serial Interface (CSI) port. The Bullseye (32/64 bits) Raspberry Pi OS or any later releases support the integration of the camera module. The camera can be used with a wide range of machine vision libraries (like OpenCV, TensorFlow, etc.) as it can function as a standard V4L2 device as well, with support to C, C++, and Python.

Using Arducam ToF Camera for Point Cloud Applications

Enhancing 3D Imaging with the ArduCam ToF Camera Module

The ToF camera module has numerous use cases including point cloud mapping, 3D photogrammetric, 3D depth analysis, and a lot more. ArduCam is trying to make the board suitable for Nvidia’s Jetson Nano/NX as well. With its low cost, low power requirements, and easy connectivity, the ToF camera module is ideal for various applications in a wide range of sectors including healthcare, surveillance, and robotics. You can support by funding on Kickstarter or apply for a free sample on ArduCam’s website.

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