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RKNN Toolkit Lite2 on RK3588
RKNN Toolkit Lite2 runs converted .rknn models on the RK3588 NPU through Python. Rockchip supplies a ResNet18 example that loads a model, prepares an RGB image, and returns classification scores on the board. The Rockchip RK3588 platform still uses its CPU for the Python application, image handling, and whatever happens after inference. Lite2 gives that ... Read more
ONNX to RKNN on RK3588
Rockchip’s RKNN Toolkit2 converts ONNX models into .rknn files for the RK3588 NPU. The board then runs those files through RKNN Toolkit Lite2 for Python, or the RKNN Runtime C/C++ API. The Rockchip RK3588 platform can use that detector in a camera appliance, with the CPU handling tracking and networking. That makes local occupancy detection ... Read more
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Edge AI Occupancy Detection with RK3588
The RK3588 combines four Cortex-A76 cores, four Cortex-A55 cores, a 6 TOPS NPU, and camera interfaces on one SoC. That is enough hardware to capture a room, run a person-detection model locally, and send a small occupancy count to a building controller instead of streaming video to a server. Local processing is the useful part ... Read more
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Hailo-8 AI Accelerator: 26 TOPS Edge AI
The Hailo-8 is a 26 TOPS neural-network accelerator built for inference at the edge. You can get it as an M.2 module, connect it to a host over PCIe, and run vision models without handing all that work to the host CPU – or sending the camera feed off to a cloud service. That’s the ... Read more
Best 4GB RAM Single-board Computers (SBC)
Buying a 4GB RAM SBC should be easy. Pick a budget, compare processors, and buy the fastest board that fits. Then Raspberry Pi 5, Orange Pi 5, and KiwiPi 5 Pro make the decision awkward, especially when you consider the broader landscape of RK3588 boards in 2026. Raspberry Pi 5 has the weakest hardware (at ... Read more
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Rockchip Maskrom Mode: A Practical Recovery Guide
A Rockchip board that no longer boots is not necessarily dead. If a failed update damages the bootloader, the processor can still expose a low-level USB recovery interface called Maskrom mode. It sits below Android, Linux, U-Boot, and the loader stored on eMMC or SPI flash. That makes Maskrom the most dependable recovery path on ... Read more
MIPI Connector: Overview and Introduction
A MIPI connector may look like an ordinary ribbon-cable socket, but its appearance tells you surprisingly little about what can actually be connected to it. Two connectors can have the same number of pins and the same physical dimensions while using different pinouts, voltages, lane configurations, and even interface standards. This is the main source ... Read more
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Rockchip Driver Assistant: The Essential Guide for Windows Users
If you’ve ever tried to flash a custom firmware onto an Orange Pi, recover a bricked Radxa board, or simply get your Windows PC to recognize a Rockchip-powered device, you’ve probably run into a familiar problem: your computer just doesn’t see it. You plug in the USB cable, and nothing happens. No new drive appears, ... Read more
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Linux PS1 Emulator: How to install RetroArch
The original PlayStation remains one of the most popular retro gaming platforms, and modern ARM-based single-board computers have more than enough processing power to emulate it smoothly. With RetroArch and the PCSX ReARMed core, running PS1 games on Linux has become surprisingly straightforward – even on compact hardware powered by Rockchip processors. In this guide, ... Read more
