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Will the AI Deck be produced in the future now that Greenwaves is liquidated? #1949
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As Greenwaves doesn't seem to be in business any more, I am wondering whether Bitcraze will continue to produce the AI Deck expansion boards for the Crazyflie. The primary advantage of the AI Deck, upon its initial release, was its exceptional low energy consumption when handling demanding tasks like computer vision. At that time, its integrated GAP8 microcontroller represented the cutting edge in low-power solutions for such workloads. Back when it was released it was the state of the art in low power microcontrollers for this kind of workload. However, considering that in 2025 there are other low power alternatives to the GAP8 such as the Alif Ensemble E1 and also the difficulties that others are facing with using the GAP8 chip (including SDK issues, hardware issues and toolchain issues), I wonder whether it is time for a refresh to the AI Deck. |
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Hi Iggy. While Greenwaves is no longer active, we can still produce more AI-decks. We're also working on a successor with a newer microcontroller, though it may be a while before we share more details. In the meantime, we’d love to hear any feedback or other suggestions you have for a future version. |
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@gemenerik Are there any updates with this? I'd like to try integrate a camera and some embedded AI into some Crazyflies. Given the cost it'd be great to know how long you plan to keep supporting the existing AI-decks / the timeline for when a successor deck might be released? Is it still possible to develop for the existing AI deck or should it be considered EOL and I should wait for the successor? |
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Hi! To clarify: we're in very early stages on a successor - it will take a serious amount of time. |
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Awesome, I haven't used it before so I guess I'm just confused what no longer works now with the autotiler download being broken? |
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Hi Iggy. While Greenwaves is no longer active, we can still produce more AI-decks. We're also working on a successor with a newer microcontroller, though it may be a while before we share more details. In the meantime, we’d love to hear any feedback or other suggestions you have for a future version.