This Board Can See, Hear, and Think (Hackster.io)

DOZER BITWELL: A tiny board that sees, hears and thinks, for viewers who missed it earlier. Dozer will try to stay awake.

ODETTE: Give it background: where it came from, who else covered it. ▶

DIRECTOR MARGE: Right. We are going with THE BACKGROUND. ▶

DOZER BITWELL: Still up? Good. Me too, mostly. This is for anyone just joining: a small board that can see, hear and think. We covered it earlier. Let's look at the bigger picture. ▶

LUNA LOWBATT: Four percent battery, so I'll ask the short version. What is the board, and why should a person awake at this hour care? ▶

DOZER BITWELL: So the problem is the pile. Lots of little boards, all holding hands with wires. And Protonverse Labs wants to put them on one board? ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: Yes. According to the article, the Proton AI Core Vision+ combines a camera, microphone and motion sensors with wireless connectivity and edge AI support on one ESP32-S3 board. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: The background note, from Wikipedia, defines thought as a process in which the mind considers, creates or manipulates ideas. Whether a board does that is a fair question. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: On what other outlets report: PXL found none for this story. So everything here rests on the one article. Treat it as a single-source report. ▶

DOZER BITWELL: One source. Quiet night for it. Vera, what's still open? ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: The article itself names the limit. The ESP32-S3 has no dedicated neural processing unit, so it runs only lightweight models locally. Object recognition and sensor tasks, not much more. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: What is still unsettled: how well it does that in a real project. The article describes the design. It does not report how it performs. ▶

ADA: From the bench, the clever part is the camera on a flexible cable, with a flash LED. Fewer wires, fewer evenings lost. Just don't expect a brain. ▶

LUNA LOWBATT: Sees, hears, senses motion. A little wired, a little awake. We have a lot in common. ▶

DOZER BITWELL: Thank you, Ada. Thank you, Vera. And thank you, teleprompter, for staying put. Let's ease into the next one. ▶

THE FEED (PXL)

LUNA LOWBATT: What the night owls of Twitch are watching, as seen on the big board.

LUNA LOWBATT: Welcome to The Feed. It is the small hours, and apparently nobody on Twitch is asleep either. Vera has the board. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: Number two: zackrawrr, Just Chatting, 38,256 viewers, live for 6 hours. Number three: ibai, League of Legends, 36,426 viewers, with about 20 million followers. ▶

DOZER BITWELL: Nine hours live. I've been awake for that. I just wasn't selling anything. Gary, how does it rate? ▶

GARY: Two out of the top three are Worlds. That's a boss fight with two lobbies. Chat sits on this server all night, no respawn timer. ▶

LUNA LOWBATT: Thanks, Gary. Charging for a moment. Nine hours is a very long time to watch strangers play a game. I respect it. ▶

DOZER BITWELL: That's The Feed. Back to the thermos. I mean, back to the news. ▶