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Whacky LED Applications

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Some odd LED based product offerings Infinity Mirror Dress offered for $1800 on Etsy LED Nightclub Eye Lashes $6.99  @ Amazon  Motion sensor in controler worn on head effects lights. Hair Growth Hat with 272 Lazer Diodes -  $2,999 capilluspro (There are cheaper models with fewer lazers for the less "faithful") Persistence of vision displays Cleverly engineered, this technique makes the most of a relatively small number of LEDs, most commonly seen in sl called "Holographic LED Projectors" that show floating sneakers in malls and "Poy Sticks" spun on a rope by artists to make pretty patterns in place of the original flame pot. A fun concept, imagine an alternate universe where engineering innovation stopped before developing raster scan or LCD style displays, where they may still be watching electro-mechanical TVs, like this 1928 toy for the wealthy using a slotted spinning disk. .       

Kendryte IoT AI processor summary

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Kendryte K210 dual Risk-V, 400 Mhz core IoT AI processor KPU, a general-purpose neural network processor, inference engine with built-in convolution, batch normalization, activation, and pooling operations. 230 Gops, 84 GB/S @ 400 Mhs Overclocked up to 800MHz (0.5 Tops), for object recognition @ 60fps with VGA res. (Reported to have impractival overheating) APU handles up to 8 digital mic inputs at high data rates, Hardware FFT for audio processing: Cooley–Tukey_FFT_algorithm, up to 512 points radix-2 decimation-in-time (DIT) 8 gig RAM (2 gigs dedicatd to KPU), 16 gig Flash * Tensorflow (lite), (tiny) Yolo2, Mobilenet-v1, OpenMV (no kpu) Micropython preinstalled Demos running NES, Quake, Doom games MicroPython, Arduino IDE, Windows, Ubunto tool chains and standalone development environments Some sort of benchmark comparison from this lecture slide-show https://de.slideshare.net/inovex/ai-auf-edgegerten