Open Source Linux SBC with AI

UPDATE #5: New enclosure!

UPDATE #4: We're setting up Von Vision as an obstacle detection camera for collision avoidance on boats! We have a small demo to show. As soon as an obstacle is detected with a fair degree of confidence, an alarm is triggered. We will show a lot more soon!

UPDATE #3: We have tested out our new acrylic enclosure, it's very useful for when you don't want to carry around an entire tablet! And it looks very nice as a simple tabletop form factor. This way it can be used headless connected remotely to other cameras through Ethernet, the HDMI output lets you connect a simple monitor if needed!

UPDATE #2: We very recently received our new enclosure printed in SLS. We will be showing you these in a lot more detail soon, for the moment, enjoy this sneak peek!

- What's in the works?

• We're testing Von Vision as an end-use product, an Edge AI camera product to be specific! We don't want to spell it out just yet, but we will show it very soon.
• We have made our Edge AI main program run with RTSP/WebRTC video streams. So you no longer depend on the native MIPI CSI-2 camera, now you can also use Von Vision headless to add the AI brains to existing cameras!
• We have added support for Box64, it allows x86/x86_64 applications to run without hassle on Von Vision! Additionally, we have also added the GL4ES compatibility layer to run OpenGL applications on our OpenGLES GPU. Most x86/x86_64 applications take advantage of OpenGL so having this is a great boost in performance.

UPDATE #1: Back in June I attended Teardown 2024 in Portland, Oregon. It is a yearly event by and for hackers and makers. It was definitely a great experience and the first time ever I was surrounded by such a gigantic group of like-minded people. Even during my college years, I was almost alone on the Maker world.

At Teardown 2024, I gave a short talk on some of the development history of this project, I tried to quickly explain some of the most important design decisions and difficulties during development, like why choose Buildroot OS? I also did a Live Demo of the Portable version at the 21:05 minute mark! I wanted to showcase the zero latency, high framerate nature of the project, even while doing AI inference on real time.

That talk was just uploaded on Youtube and you can watch it down below

We believe the Maker community, alongside the Open Source movement, has driven innovation into the electronics industry. The Arduino community has been revolutionary to the electronic space, allowing beginners to easily develop new and fresh ideas with relative ease. Not only by selling readily available kits, but also by Open Sourcing their schematics and PCB files.

This revolution has not yet reached the Embedded Linux world. While Raspberry Pi has done a wonderful job selling kits, they don't provide schematics and PCB files for their boards. That's what inspired us to fully Open Source our product.

.Von VisionAI a powerful and versatile development platform running on Linux, with an onboard NPU and 4K camera that enables you to quickly design and deploy Edge AI applications. We offer you an easy to use platform with all the required tools to bring your most wild ideas to life.

We're also including an ESP32 on our board so you can easily interface the complex and advanced Linux CPU, with the simple and well-known ESP32, so that you can interface with the outside world as easily as you are used to! Any specific object detection or data coming in or out the powerful microprocessor can be easily relayed to the ESP32, from where you can a lot more easily control motors, relay information wirelessly, turn on or off any other device, and anything you can imagine!.

While we initially developed just a CCTV camera, we also developed a portable version with a touchscreen as well for mobile applications! The poweful Mali GPU inside will offload the graphics processing off the CPU.

Currently we benchmark slightly over 30fps doing AI inference on 1920x1080 video streams. We offload AI to the NPU cores, and we offload rendering to the GPU, leaving the main CPU around 80% free to do any other task. Everything (Schematic + PCB + Firmware) is being released under MIT license.

Success Story: We wanted to save lives and reduce accidents on the streets. So we're currently doing test deployments of Von VisionAI (CCTV version) to reduce traffic infractions and violations on real time. We will disclose more about this in due time. This is just one of the infinite use cases of our platform.

Feel free to use them for your own products and ideas! Subscribe to our Crowdsupply pre-campaign if you like it!

https://www.crowdsupply.com/punto-maximo-llc/von-visionai

Also we are opening up our Discourse forums, feel free to join and say hello:

https://forum.vonvisionai.com