TinyML on Arduino Board

Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense for tinyML Projects

Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense was the first Arduino board designed for tinyML projects using cainvas. It is embedded with following sensors:

1. Microphone

2. 9 axis inertial sensor

3. humidity, and temperature sensor

4. barometric sensor

5. gesture, proximity, light color and light intensity sensor

These sensors make this board ideal for wearable devices, weather stations, sound analysis, wakeword detection, movement direction (to/away) detection etc.

How to Use Arduino on Cainvas

Arduino has application (.bin file) and static library (.a file) generation support on Cainvas. It can also flash the generated binary to the board directly on the board connected to a windows/ubuntu laptop.

Once SDK is downloaded, you need to unzip and run the device on your laptop/desktop. The running SDK process would do the following:

1. Find the USB port connected to Arduino

2. Connect to Arduino and start receiving the sensor data

3. Print the sensor data on screen, line by line.

4. Send the data to Cainvas with appropriate http/mqtt protocol.

Then you head back to Cainvas Pailette and select "Sensor Data Capture" tab to watch the sensor data waveforms in realtime.

The data thus captured in saved as a dataset for deep learning model development.

The deep learning model is training for a few hundred epochs. Once a reasonable accuracy is achieved the model is saved in ONNX format. Then we convert saved ONNX model using deepSea compiler into an laptop application to compare the inference accuracy to test accuracy from PyTorch with the same test dataset.

After the test, deepSea compiler is used to compile the ONNX model into an application or a library for Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense board and validate the model running on Cainvas with waveform and inference label.