Raspberry Pi and Sony made an AI-powered digicam module

Raspberry Pi and Sony have co-developed a Raspberry Pi AI Digital camera module that’s launching as we speak for $70. It comes with onboard AI processing that may assist Raspberry Pi customers develop “edge AI options that course of visible information” with ease, in response to the tiny pc maker.

The AI digicam is suitable with all Raspberry Pi single-board computer systems, and pairs the corporate’s RP2040 microcontroller chip with Sony’s IMX500 picture sensor — the latter of which handles AI processing. The mixture eliminates the necessity for added elements like accelerators or a graphics processing unit (GPU), that are sometimes required for digicam modules to deal with large-scale visible information.

The 12.3 megapixel Raspberry Pi AI Digital camera can seize footage at both 10 frames per second in 4056 x 3040, or 40fps at 2028 x 1520. It additionally has a manually adjustable focus, a 76-degree subject of view, and measures 25 x 24 x 11.9mm — making it virtually equivalent in dimension to the Digital camera Module 3 that Raspberry Pi launched final yr.