SparkFun Launches Arducam Pico4ML-Powered Machine Learning and AI Concept Kit

SparkFun has launched a new bundled designed to help people break into machine learning and artificial intelligence projects, using Arducam's Pico4ML Raspberry Pi RP2040-powered tinyML board as the basis.

"The Machine Learning and AI Concept Kit is a starting place for working with predictive algorithms trained from historical data and inputs," explains SparkFun's Chris McCarty. "With the Machine Learning and AI Concept Kit, you'll be offered an open-ended approach to machine learning and artificial intelligence, giving you countless options to make more project ideas come to life and enable you to process incoming data against ML-trained datasets."

The bundle is centered around Arducam's Pico4ML, a board the company launched in March last year for TensorFlow Lite projects and boasting a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller, on-board 160×80 color display, microphone with wake word detection, inertial measurement unit (IMU), and a QVGA monochrome camera module.

To the board, SparkFun has added a Digital Loggers IoT Power Relay with four outputs, offering the ability to put two normally-off and one normally-on socket under external control while providing a single always-on socket to power your controlling device. Finally, the bundle includes SparkFun's pan/tilt kit with bracket, servos, and fixings for two-axes control.

The bundle is available on the SparkFun store now, priced at $89.95 before volume discounts; to help people get started, meanwhile, the company is pointing developers towards the Edge Impulse Studio platform, which includes full Pico4ML support.