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Google Coral Accelerator Development Kit (A/E, B/M, Mini PCIe) $45.31 + $14.25 Delivery ($0 with $88 Order) @ RS Components

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Google Coral Accelerator Development Kit (A/E, B/M, Mini PCIe) $45.31 + $14.25 Delivery ($0 with $88 Order) @ RS Components
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xmail on 04/08/2023 - 20:51 au.rs-online.com (648 clicks)
Last edited 07/08/2023 - 12:02 by 1 other user

A decent price for various Google Coral TPU models. They typically sell for ~$100 on Amazon and elsewhere. They have also been difficult to find in stock.

M.2 A/E: https://au.rs-online.com/web/p/communication-wireless-develo…
M.2 B/M: https://au.rs-online.com/web/p/communication-wireless-develo…
Mini PCIe: https://au.rs-online.com/web/p/communication-wireless-develo…

The USB model is on backorder, but not a bad price either ($106.56):
https://au.rs-online.com/web/p/development-tool-accessories/…

(Edited prices to include GST)

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  • Commodore64 on 04/08/2023 - 20:52
    +1

    I’ve previously waited 9 months for one before getting for seeed studio.

    • Man10United on 04/08/2023 - 23:47

      Yeah same. By the time I got it I didn't need it anymore since I use some gpu processing.

      • Commodore64 on 05/08/2023 - 07:41

        Coral is still significantly less power usage.
        Do you use Frigate? Since 0.12 now supports NVIDIA

        • Man10United on 06/08/2023 - 00:24

          My plan was to use frigate on coral. But deepstack does wha I want (detecting my car on driveway, person on porch, bin on nature strip, etc) and I didn't bother trying it any more thanks to 9 months coral delay.

          • Commodore64 on 06/08/2023 - 07:33

            @Man10United: Interesting, frigate works regally well on RTX now.
            Hadn’t heard of deep stack yet.
            Are you able to determine the attributes of said car, eg colour?

            • Man10United on 06/08/2023 - 08:17

              @Commodore64: Deepstack is yet another open source ai that blue iris used to support as well (before they switch to codeproject?). No in general the output of object-detection is the bounding-box, confidence and object class. We could find the dominant colour by a bit post processing I reckon. But in general, colours are not reliable, e.g. when my camera goes to night mode with ir light. Or when it's rainy, vs in shade vs under sunshine.

  • internet-stranger on 04/08/2023 - 21:04

    My M.2 A/E arrived 2 weeks ago… after being on backorder for 52 weeks!
    The USB is still on backorder…..

    • xmail on 04/08/2023 - 21:06

      RS is showing stock counts and I have a despatch notification, so hopefully these are actually in stock and being sent now.

      • Yekul on 04/08/2023 - 21:38

        Doesn't seem like the stock count is 'live' however, which may not be good for rest of us. Shall see I guess! Fingers crossed!

  • Yekul on 04/08/2023 - 21:06

    Hoping as these are 'in stock' they won't sit as backorders? Great spotting, very cheap. Have an E key dual version here, which of course my Dell 7060 can't utilise in the wifi slot for whatever reason (but apparently the single a+e version works fine?).
    edit: Aside from Frigate, what are people using these for curiously? I may end up with a spare so keen to hear ideas.

    • xmail on 04/08/2023 - 21:08

      I also have a 7060 that I'm hoping the single A/E model works with. I've seen similar reports that the dual doesn't work but the single does, so fingers crossed. If not I'll just buy an adapter.

      I plan to use with code project/blue iris, possibly frigate instead.

      • Yekul on 04/08/2023 - 21:33

        Yeah unfortunately I found out too late. I expected that the dual would simply only have one working, but that's not the case. There's a very nice adapter made by magic blue smoke, but it's US based so pretty expensive all said and done. I have ordered a cheap E to M adapter to try in the nvme m.2 slot for the dual (only one tpu will work however) but really don't want to 'waste' the nvme slot when you're limited to 1x nvme and 1x ssd for storage. Likely I will offload saves to a network drive anyways however so maybe not such a big deal.

      • internet-stranger on 04/08/2023 - 21:36
        +1

        I have a 7060 with the AE single version. (It works perfectly)
        The only gotcha was to enable wifi in the bios. As turning off the wifi disables the port and it won’t detect.

    • Bruceflix on 04/08/2023 - 22:41

      I have the dual tpu version. Works fine with the pcie adaptor although you have to add custom cooling. Have both TPU working in Frigate.

      • Commodore64 on 06/08/2023 - 08:01
        +1

        I also have the dual TPU version, 25 USD adapter works like a charm.
        EDIT: even slotting it into a NUC11PRO with a dedicated wifi slot, don’t expect both APEX devices to be found.. it won’t.

      • Cave7 on 11/08/2023 - 08:52

        Which adapter did you get? As not all seem to support dual channels.

  • Leonidas on 04/08/2023 - 21:12

    Wow finally stock

  • StackableSnacks on 04/08/2023 - 21:33
    +7

    Just ordered 5. What does it do?

    • Mostly Fanless on 04/08/2023 - 21:49

      Machine learning.

    • 00 on 04/08/2023 - 21:50
      +14

      Accelerates depletion of Coral indirectly through its manufacture, distribution and use.

    • zombie hunter on 05/08/2023 - 09:23
      -1

      It find the bargains for you so you can go back to watching p@rn

  • shaidas on 04/08/2023 - 21:56
    -1

    Excellent .. thanks OP.. though 59.56 delivered to WA.. I shall just use the 4090 till these modules become more powerful ..not worth the price for my application as of now ..but these things are hard to come by

  • UltimateAI on 04/08/2023 - 23:24

    These are great with BlueIris and CodeProjectAI. Sure not as fast as a GPU but at <~1w, your NVR runs cool without a GPU.
    I have the USB version.
    I got mine from Seed Studio (recommended partner) and cheaper, delivery was super fast.

    • xmail on 06/08/2023 - 12:25

      Never noticed the ones on seeed, definitely cheaper but unfortunately missed the stock for the model I am after.

  • xmagic on 05/08/2023 - 10:40

    Seems the m.2 versions are PCIe devices, so no trivial convertion to USB possible I assume.

    • Commodore64 on 06/08/2023 - 08:03
      +1

      The usb versions are reported to run a bit hot, they won’t work in an external device unless it’s THUNDERBOLT (PCI).
      They will work with a cheap M2<->PCIe, as mentioned above the dual channel one is a different story

      • UltimateAI on 06/08/2023 - 13:04

        USB one is designed for USB. The M.2 pci ones require heatsyncs. Well they work without it, but you get very high temps.

  • JonnyCookieDough on 05/08/2023 - 18:12

    Anyone know of a self hosted image backup platform that can use these for image detection?

    I have the pcie version and waited 5 months for it! Originally was going to use it in frigate, but might get another.

    • Commodore64 on 06/08/2023 - 08:04

      Do you need something more specific than frigate?

      Perhaps something like a NODERED extension is more what you’re after?

    • UltimateAI on 06/08/2023 - 13:05

      CodeProjectAI has a coral module and works great.
      But it’s not a backup platform

  • BeefBiryani on 06/08/2023 - 22:47

    So what's the difference between the three? Are they different with respect to processing power or something else?

    • xmail on 07/08/2023 - 07:16
      +2

      Just in how it connects, you would pick the one that you have an available slot for.

  • Low Punt on 18/09/2023 - 20:59

    What are you’ll using these for? Thanks

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