Use the PortentaVisionShield using the Arduino IDE

[rocksetta]

Hi,
Arduino supports vision shield on IDE. It just takes time to provide full support on various platforms and we felt that the most interesting use of this board would be with openmv that has lots of libraries that can help you quickly do more than just capturing a picture.
We already have a primitive image capture library and an audio example that will be published soon. It would be nice to understand which would be your use cases within arduino language so that we can better tailor support for it.

Thanks,

Dario Pennisi

Hi Dario:

I teach Robotics at a Canadian High School, and an after school kids Machine Learning course with https://www.gearbots.org/stem-academy/ . I will soon choose what hardware to purchase for my Feb 2021 Robotics course and will again next year. I am very interested in the Portenta, the Vision Shield and all other shields for the Portenta including any MKR shields, but like all new products there are a few bugs, (looks like I broke my Vision Shield). Most of the Portenta ones are getting worked out. My Github about the Portenta is at GitHub - hpssjellis/my-examples-for-the-arduino-portentaH7: My examples fir the new Arduino Pro board the Portenta H7 and my youtube video playlist about the Portenta is at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL57Dnr1H_egtm0pi-okmG0iE_X5dROaLw. I work really fast and make lots of mistakes.

I learn everything I can about a product so that my students can make whatever project they want to. I would be most interested in basic abilities with all the visions shields hardware.

1. How to get Ethernet working with wifi.h,

2. How to store an audio file on the sd card and on a connected computer

3. How to store an image file on the sd card and on a connected computer

4. Examples of how to use JTAG with various debuggers. (I have an ST-link-v2 debugger, Segger J-link EDU mini debugger, but I really like the drag and drop file abilities of the Particle debugger)

All of the above would allow my students to use the Vision Shield in whatever way was helpful for the projects they want to work on.


The OpenMV micropython IDE is very impressive and the Machine Learning capabilities are amazing, especially when connected with ML training using https://www.edgeimpulse.com which if I could get it working appears to have lots of potential, but presently my courses are in C, C++ and Javascript.


I am fairly active on the facebook Portenta group which a few Arduino employees occasionally post. Portenta Facebook Group - Portenta H7 - Arduino Forum


Thank you for your interest in my views.

Jeremy