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Getting freaky with Google Coral

Intro

Last year Google released the Coral platform, an initiative to aid in development of ai without the need of a cloud. That’s right, coral is offline, and doesn’t need a cloud. Which means it is secure, doesn’t involve the additional cost of needed connectivity or access to cloud storage. The platform facilitates an on-board Edge TPU processor that is capable of performing 4 trillion operations per second, while only consuming 1watt of power. It is trult state of the art technology, and surprisingly affordable.

Devices

The platform is available in numerous different devices that can be ran as a standalone server, a mini pci-express card to extend an already existent system, and to a usb accelerator drive. Two of these devices were particularly eye catching, the standalone development board and the usb accelerator . Both being priced quite reasonably.

Development framework

Coral facilitates the tensorflow lite framework, which many of us are already familiar with using for ML development. There is an API for both C++ and for python available.