Giveaway Week 2024 – RT-Thread Vision board with Renesas RA8D1 Arm Cortex-M85 MCU

It’s already Friday, and the fifty prize of CNX Software’s Giveaway Week 2024 will be the RT-Thread Vision board equipped with a Renesas RA8D1 Arm Cortex-M85 microcontroller, a camera, an optional LCD display, and a 40-pin GPIO header.

The board is used as an evaluation platform for the Renesas RA8D1 MCU and RT-Thread real-time operating system. As its name implies, it’s mainly designed for computer vision applications leveraging the Helium MVE (M-Profile Vector Extension) for digital signal processing (DSP) and machine learning (ML) applications.

RT-Thread Vision board

I haven’t reviewed it myself and instead, received two samples from RT-Thread who sent them to me by mistake, so I’ll give them away here and on the Thai website. But it was reviewed by Supachai who tested the RT-Thread Vision board with OpenMV and ran a few benchmarks last June. The Helium MVE did not seem to be utilized in OpenMV at that time (June 2024) since the performance was inferior to another STM32H743 Cortex-M7 board. But maybe it has been implemented since then.

RT-Thread Vision board giveaway

The prize for this giveaway includes the RT-Thread Vision board with a camera (no LCD), a USB-A to USB-C cable, and a plastic case.

To enter the draw simply leave a comment with your country and whatever else you’d like to say (no links in the body of the comment). If the country is missing, I’ll consider the entry void. Other rules are as follows:

  • Only one entry per contest. I will filter out entries with the same IP and/or email address.
  • Contests are open for 48 hours starting at 10 a.m. (Bangkok time) every day.
  • Comments will be closed after 48 hours. If comments are open, the contest is still going on.
  • Winners will be selected with random.org and announced in the comments section of each giveaway.
  • It’s a global contest, so anybody can enter, except people residing in Thailand who can instead enter the contest on CNX Software Thailand with much better odds.
  • I’ll contact the winner by email and expect an answer within 24 hours, or I’ll pick another winner. Note that I may not be able to contact people who log in with Facebook, Twitter, or Google, so it’s better to use an email address to enter the draw.
  • Shipping
    • $14 for registered airmail small packet or ePacket for overseas shipping payable via PayPal within 48 hours once the contest (for a given product) is complete. If PayPal is not an option in your country, we can try to find another payment solution.
    • All prizes will be shipped at the same time once we get all the winners, so around November 14.
  • I’ll make sure we have 7 different winners, so if you have already won a device during this giveaway week, I’ll draw another person.

Good luck to everyone! The RT-Thread Vision board can be purchased on AliExpress for $29.70 with a camera or $41.64 with a camera an an LCD.

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Greg Dalton
2 hours ago

Canada for the Win!

Nicolas
Nicolas
2 hours ago

Nah, NZ for the win, mate.

Andy
Andy
2 hours ago

usa

Mamdouh
Mamdouh
2 hours ago

Egypt , for PALESTINIAN free

quangcaol
quangcaol
1 hour ago

Vietnam, it seems like a cool kit

Jitendra
Jitendra
1 hour ago

From India…looks amazing for the price

Shadowdu
Shadowdu
1 hour ago

Greetings from Canada

Adrian Snyman
Adrian Snyman
1 hour ago

South Africa here !!!

Ilyu
Ilyu
1 hour ago

USA, wanted to try ML

Frank frank
Frank frank
1 hour ago

Singapore

mr._zet
59 minutes ago

India, finally got my hands dirty with rpi02w looking forward to mess a lil with this tooo..

mr._zet
56 minutes ago
jay
jay
57 minutes ago

The UK. Good luck all.

Juan Lopes
43 minutes ago

Greetings from Brazil!
What about one of those on the amazon region? 🙂

Miro
Miro
40 minutes ago

Slovak Republic

lucas
lucas
38 minutes ago

sg

Pham
Pham
35 minutes ago

Greetings from Vietnam

Nguyen Quoc Binh
Nguyen Quoc Binh
30 minutes ago

Hello from Vietnam

Saad
Saad
21 minutes ago

Hi from Pakistan

Stanislav Vasilev
Stanislav Vasilev
11 minutes ago

Bulgaria is on the race!

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