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
13 days ago

Canada for the Win!

Gabriel Kanes
Gabriel Kanes
11 days ago

US for the win? We’re having a tough week.

Nicolas
Nicolas
13 days ago

Nah, NZ for the win, mate.

Andy
Andy
13 days ago

usa

Mamdouh
Mamdouh
13 days ago

Egypt , for PALESTINIAN free

quangcaol
quangcaol
13 days ago

Vietnam, it seems like a cool kit

Jitendra
Jitendra
13 days ago

From India…looks amazing for the price

Shadowdu
Shadowdu
13 days ago

Greetings from Canada

Adrian Snyman
Adrian Snyman
13 days ago

South Africa here !!!

Ilyu
Ilyu
13 days ago

USA, wanted to try ML

Frank frank
Frank frank
13 days ago

Singapore

mr._zet
13 days ago

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

mr._zet
13 days ago
jay
jay
13 days ago

The UK. Good luck all.

Agathiyan V
13 days ago

INDIA

Juan Lopes
13 days ago

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

Miro
Miro
13 days ago

Slovak Republic

lucas
lucas
13 days ago

sg

Pham
Pham
13 days ago

Greetings from Vietnam

Nguyen Quoc Binh
Nguyen Quoc Binh
13 days ago

Hello from Vietnam

Nik
13 days ago

Netherlands

Saad
Saad
13 days ago

Hi from Pakistan

Stanislav Vasilev
Stanislav Vasilev
13 days ago

Bulgaria is on the race!

Sebastian Pokutycki
Sebastian Pokutycki
13 days ago

Greetings from Poland

Sam Vesu
Sam Vesu
13 days ago

Hi from USA

David
David
13 days ago

Hello from Israel!

Gabe R
Gabe R
13 days ago

Hello from USA!

Vince
Vince
13 days ago

Greetings from Belgium

Erik S
Erik S
13 days ago

Greetings from Sweden

Codrut R.
Codrut R.
13 days ago

Greetings from Romania

lifelion
lifelion
13 days ago

Fantastic from France!

lacko835
lacko835
13 days ago

Good Morning, World!

Marcin
Marcin
13 days ago

Nah, the lucky one will win. 🙂
Greetings from Poland.

Dainis
13 days ago

Greetings from Latvia.

Hardip
Hardip
13 days ago

Australia

Mina Karami
Mina Karami
13 days ago

Hi from Iran

Jose Antonio
Jose Antonio
13 days ago

Greetings from Spain and my best wishes for all the CNX community!

Hackileo Cypher
13 days ago

From Tanzania

Pim Vullers
Pim Vullers
13 days ago

Netherlands

donky kong
donky kong
13 days ago

From Japan

Fabien
Fabien
13 days ago

greetings from France !

Guillaume
Guillaume
13 days ago

Hello from France

anan
13 days ago

Hello from Ireland.

Porush
Porush
13 days ago

Hi from India (Bharat)

technik007cz
technik007cz
13 days ago

Great Britain is the best !

Tuck Wai
Tuck Wai
13 days ago

Hi from Malaysia!!

Elisha
Elisha
13 days ago

Israel

Carlos Santos
Carlos Santos
13 days ago

Portugal!!!

gma
gma
13 days ago

Hello to all

Abhishek Kalyankar
Abhishek Kalyankar
13 days ago

Hello from the other side in India

Joao
13 days ago

Hello from Portugal

Jasbir
Jasbir
13 days ago

Greetings from UK

Supachai Vorapojpisut
Supachai Vorapojpisut
13 days ago

From Thailand

Roman Ryltsov
13 days ago

Greetings from Poland

Topper
13 days ago

Bulgaria here, good luck everyone

Aleš
Aleš
13 days ago

Heslo from Czechia.Hoolla.

Quinten
Quinten
13 days ago

Netherlands here
I love playing with microcontrollers and such so would be a fun toy to play with

udif
udif
13 days ago

Thanks from Israel!

Tom
Tom
13 days ago

Hello from Guatemala.

frosty
frosty
12 days ago

greetings from germany! Peace FTW! 😉

Jason
Jason
12 days ago

USA, in for 1

Matt
Matt
12 days ago

Usa

frosty
frosty
12 days ago

Greeting to all from Germany!

frosty
frosty
12 days ago

sorry, doublepost, I thought one was rejected

12 days ago

Hi! Paul here from the Philippines. If I could win this giveaway, the hardware would be of great use for my computer vision and machine learning-based applications.

Jimmy James
Jimmy James
12 days ago

USA!

Rui Cruz
Rui Cruz
12 days ago

Hello from Portugal

Sanket
Sanket
12 days ago

India for the win great giveaway

sheng
sheng
12 days ago

Canada. Great contest.

Andy
Andy
12 days ago

Greetings from Russia!!!

rod klein
12 days ago

greetings from canada

Julio
Julio
12 days ago

Thank you from France 🥰

Matt McFadden
Matt McFadden
12 days ago

Thank you front florida. USA

Kay
Kay
12 days ago

Greetings from Germany

Tim
Tim
12 days ago

Hello from the United Kingdom

therealergo
12 days ago

Proud to be an American (etc etc)

Tom Foth
Tom Foth
12 days ago

Looking to win this from the United States (see what I did there…)

Flavian
Flavian
12 days ago

Romania online and ready!

Kit G
12 days ago

Poland!

Sergio Espinal
Sergio Espinal
12 days ago

Honduras here! This will be interesting to tinker with. Thanks for this chance Jean-luc

Harry
Harry
12 days ago

Germany

Szymon
Szymon
12 days ago

Ireland

Dennis. Wollersheim
12 days ago

Australia or bust

Shreyas K
Shreyas K
12 days ago

Looks great for industrial and low latency MV applications like PCB inspection robots.

Cheers from Bharat/India!

Tim
Tim
12 days ago

US

Dustin Dorris
Dustin Dorris
12 days ago

Count me in
United States

Albert
Albert
12 days ago

Hello from Australia!

Leandro
Leandro
12 days ago

Greetings from Sardinia, Italy!

Ishan Patel
Ishan Patel
12 days ago

USA! To watch rescued armadillos run and measure how much they ran!

Stephen
Stephen
12 days ago

Greetings from the UK

John Paulenich
John Paulenich
12 days ago

I’m a university student in the USA. This looks like it would be an amazing addition to a autonomous rover project I’m working on!

Jon
Jon
12 days ago

USA! I have a rover in mind for this one

Juri Shalkin
12 days ago

Hello from Russia!

Alex Cargill
Alex Cargill
12 days ago

Let’s go South Africa!

Luc
Luc
12 days ago

Will this be my first Renesas product ? Let’s hope so.
Regards from France

Hel Kumar Shrestha
12 days ago

Namaste/Konnichiwa/Hello from Hiroshima, Japan

Jay
Jay
12 days ago

USAAAAA

Walter
Walter
12 days ago

Spain

Rodney
Rodney
12 days ago

Hi from Australia
this looks like a fun toy tool!

satvik
satvik
12 days ago

hi from india

nicolas gonzalez oddone
12 days ago

Paraguay for the MV win!

Abdulhamid
Abdulhamid
12 days ago

Nigeria

Iacopo
Iacopo
11 days ago

Greetings from Italy

ahmad hossni
ahmad hossni
11 days ago

Egypt

Nikola
Nikola
11 days ago

Serbia

Loled
11 days ago

France here!

Marek
Marek
11 days ago

Greetings from Poland!

George
George
11 days ago

Netherlands

Cyril Engmann
11 days ago

USA – Brooklyn

Jack
Jack
11 days ago

USA, thanks for the giveaway!

Luiz Oliveira
Luiz Oliveira
11 days ago

USA for the win

Navneet
Navneet
11 days ago

India !!!

Mike
Mike
11 days ago

Entry from the USA here

Leticia Arbelle Cortés
Leticia Arbelle Cortés
11 days ago

Hi!Brazil.

Ray Goh
Ray Goh
11 days ago

Apa Khabar from Malaysia ~

Sathish Guru V
Sathish Guru V
11 days ago

Hello from India!

David Challenger
David Challenger
11 days ago

Hello from the beautiful county of Monmouthshire,in South Wales ,United Kingdom.

11 days ago

Greetings from Poland!

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