I really don't understand the esp32 Lora radios, they use so much power they're useless for anything battery powered. I only use one as my home gateway since it has WiFi and I keep it plugged in. It hops through my low power tree node as a proxy.
I've got a Haltec V4 running on battery/solar as a rooftop node. It's got a 10ah battery, but it's solar panel came loose and is currently very poorly aligned. On a cloudy set of days, it drops to about 80%. That said, I had to disable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to do it. So really, not using ESP32 features, just it's 1W transmitter. My dedicated MQTT node is also ESP32, with Wi-Fi enabled, but it's constantly plugged in.
An... AI PC? As in a neural engine or something? Will it help with running LLMs? I'm not sure what that is.
Now I have to look up what an NPU is, what it does and what it's for. Completely new territory for me. I thought it was all CPUs and GPUs, maybe specialized hardware for mining crypto but NPUs?
There are some simulation and math scenarios where it can speed things up while using fraction of power a GPU would, but for general use it is not that usefull.
Orange Pi makes some cool stuff. It's nice to see them at it again.
And this feels like leaning into their strengths - great power for the price in a small form factor.
I found Orange Pi boards just okay as alternate Raspberry Pi boards, because many precompiled Pi projects aren't compatible.
But when I'm building my own thing on a Linux base, Orange Pi is a fantastic option - generally great hardware for the price, and a solid ecosystem of Linux base images (for a very affordable board, anyway.)
I've been keeping an eye on these for a while now. I eventually intend on getting a 20" touch screen and connecting an SBC or nuc to the back to make a cool little media playing, web and pdf viewing machine for use inside of my shop. So basically.. a "shop computer". I was eyeing the Orange Pi 5's but I recall an amazon comment noting that distro support was limited. With that in mind, I am leaning more towards NUC territory.
I'm looking for an SBC to be the guts of a cyberdeck fun distraction, and I was originally thinking an rk3588 would be cool, but there's no support for vulkan yet, some of the I/O can be a problem, etc.
Its making me think I'll just end up getting an n100/n150, but I didnt really want to get an Intel chipset for it.
Is what it is I guess. I hope this one has support off the jump.
The Arduino stack on esp32 is still freertos.
That's why it's recommended to leave the loop() empty, and run tasks (or whatever) in the setup() and have the tasks do their own loop
Nice idea. I'm not really sure if this is fast enough, though. The article doesn't contain a lot of information about things like memory bandwith. But the 3.5 T/s for a 7b parameter model is about the same ballpark my 9 year old Skylake CPU does with DDR3(?) RAM (at double the energy consumption). It is a bit slower than I can read, plus there is a good amount of waiting for it to ingest the question / prompt.
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