Bananapi M7

I would use the M7 to build an AI enhanced Cat Flap, which could distinguish my own cat from all the other ones in my neighborhood (especially the direct neighbor's cat won't stop sneaking in at night and bringing chaos to our kitchen )

I will use the NPU found in the Banana Pi, since I'm currently developing for it on the Orange Pi 5 4GB RAM. My limitation is there, in the low 4GB of RAM that I want to use for LLMs.

 

If someone is interested: https://github.com/Pelochus/ezrknpu

Edited May 9 by Pelochus

After messing around with Android TV boxes, and trying to get them to run OMV, VPN, AltServer and Syncthing with unpredictable stability and poor performance has made me give up on having a perfect setup. This would completely change that and allow me to focus on testing and developing FOSS tools for Armbian

russians destroyed my town, Bachmut, I lost my home and all the boards I had and I can't afford buying one for now. I have an OSDev project - an NT-like (inspired) OS, that I'm writing for x64 and arm64. Now, the arm64 work happens only in the qemu virt machine. Having an rk3588 would be, of course, an awesome addition, not just because, it's a very powerful arm minicomputer, but also because there is an EDK2 port for it and I need especially such an arm machine! because ACPI and UEFI are requirements for the project. Also, I could use it for freelance work on arm tasks.

 

I would be happy to get even a humbler board, like something with rk3566 on it, this SoC has also an EDK2 port.

And this is a screenshot of the Loader for the OS. It's from qemu virt. just tested the font drawing this is without using GOP.Blt(), because, as said, it's for the kernel itself. First, to check the jump into kernel was successful, then for further development purposes and some "early" console.

 

 

I want to make article how to build Linux using The Yocto Project for Bananapi M7 board.