[frettchen]

> Raspberry Pi is at the heart of this AI–powered, automated sorting machine that is capable of recognising and sorting any LEGO brick.

> ...wirelessly sends to a more powerful computer able to run the neural network that classifies the parts.

"The heart" may be a strong term - the eyes and hands, maybe, but the brain, at least, appears to be separate.

Still a very cool project.

[ed25519FUUU]

I’m surprised an RPI can’t be optimized to run the CNN classifier. It has up to 8 GB of ram and a pretty decent integrated GPU.

[ChuckNorris89]

The problem is its GPU was always poorly documented or not at all since Broadcom considered it proprietary IP and never provided any detailed low-level documentation.

[showerst]

I wonder if they could do that onboard with a jetson nano.