New dual-core RISC-V 64bit board

[kevinkk525]

I'm also wondering about the $5 price, considering that the used ESP82xx is not cheap either. This price is even cheaper than a chinese copy of a ready product would be.

[zepan]

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I'm also wondering about the $5 price, considering that the used ESP82xx is not cheap either. This price is even cheaper than a chinese copy of a ready product would be.
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Hi, $5 is early bird price (only 100 pcs), and without wifi version.
We offer it for $5 at a loss, just want more people can afford it.

[loboris]

One thing bothers me about all this cheap hardware: support

At this stage, those boards are mainly intended for developers, the people who knows how to deal with "subtle bugs" and can participate in the software (and hardware) development.

If Sipeed is clever enough, it will provide as much documentation for hardware and software components as possible and let others to contribute to the the development (both software and hardware).
Having cheap enough boards to work with from the beginning is very important for that proccess.

Kendryte, the company which makes K210 RISC-V processor which is the base for the Sipeed's modules/boards provides HDK, SDK and documentations which is still not perfect (some documentation still available only in Chinese), but the support is growing rapidly.

If the Sipeed's boards and software are going to be fully open source/open hardware (and it looks like they will, plus, including the support for MicroPython was the great move), there is great chance for the success.

[zepan]

One thing bothers me about all this cheap hardware: support

At this stage, those boards are mainly intended for developers, the people who knows how to deal with "subtle bugs" and can participate in the software (and hardware) development.

If Sipeed is clever enough, it will provide as much documentation for hardware and software components as possible and let others to contribute to the the development (both software and hardware).
Having cheap enough boards to work with from the beginning is very important for that proccess.

Kendryte, the company which makes K210 RISC-V processor which is the base for the Sipeed's modules/boards provides HDK, SDK and documentations which is still not perfect (some documentation still available only in Chinese), but the support is growing rapidly.

If the Sipeed's boards and software are going to be fully open source/open hardware (and it looks like they will, plus, including the support for MicroPython was the great move), there is great chance for the success.

Thank you for your support!
We are transfering wikis(en.dan.sipeed.com, en.maixpy.sipeed.com,etc.) to new wordpress-based blog (blog.sipeed.com), as it have language switch function.
And we are going to move mpy from bare metal to freeRTOS, as Kendryte now only support AI API on freeRTOS SDK.
The hardware is opensource as pdf format, and software is open source, but the model have 95+% accuracy rate will be for a fee, and everyone can trade their model.

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One thing bothers me about all this cheap hardware: support

At this stage, those boards are mainly intended for developers, the people who knows how to deal with "subtle bugs" and can participate in the software (and hardware) development.

If Sipeed is clever enough, it will provide as much documentation for hardware and software components as possible and let others to contribute to the the development (both software and hardware).
Having cheap enough boards to work with from the beginning is very important for that proccess.

Kendryte, the company which makes K210 RISC-V processor which is the base for the Sipeed's modules/boards provides HDK, SDK and documentations which is still not perfect (some documentation still available only in Chinese), but the support is growing rapidly.

If the Sipeed's boards and software are going to be fully open source/open hardware (and it looks like they will, plus, including the support for MicroPython was the great move), there is great chance for the success.

Thank you for your support!
We are transfering wikis(en.dan.sipeed.com, en.maixpy.sipeed.com,etc.) to new wordpress-based blog (blog.sipeed.com), as it have language switch function.
And we are going to move mpy from bare metal to freeRTOS, as Kendryte now only support AI API on freeRTOS SDK.
The hardware is opensource as pdf format, and software is open source, but the model have 95+% accuracy rate will be for a fee, and everyone can trade their model.

I have backed your campaign on this product and understand it is a development in process and is in early stage. I just checked out your blog.sipeed.com and I notice the syntax of your port of python is a little different from main stream Micro-Python.

i.e

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LCD >>> = machine.st7789 () ;

there is an added >>> and also there is an ; at the end of the line same as C code but on other examples of code there isn't ; at the end is that a typo???

[loboris]

I have backed your campaign on this product and understand it is a development in process and is in early stage. I just checked out your blog.sipeed.com and I notice the syntax of your port of python is a little different from main stream Micro-Python.

i.e

Code: Select all

LCD >>> = machine.st7789 () ;

there is an added >>> and also there is an ; at the end of the line same as C code but on other examples of code there isn't ; at the end is that a typo???

I've also noticed it, but it is a strange effect of the automatic translation.
Select Chinese (Traditional) in the upper right corner and the code will be OK.
; at the end of the line is not necessary, of course, but it does not produce an error.

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OK yes I see that the translator makes some mistakes.

I find here to be more info and much better English http://en.maixpy.sipeed.com/index.html