"E1" artificial intelligence board team crowdsourcing manufacturing costs

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E1 is an open source hardware kit for bringing synthetic intelligence to electronics and robotics projects. "If you're writing code for a project, and you know what it should do but not necessarily how to do it, interactive training can sometimes be easier," designer Josh Eckstein notes.

E1 takes inputs from cameras, microphones, and sensors, as well as reward and punishment input from a remote. This data is analyzed on-board and state is output to a set of header pins, relays, LEDs, and PWMs.

Many tasks currently performed by microcontrollers are good candidates for E1's approach: training your pet robot; creating a smart, adaptive thermostat; teaching your A/V system which components are needed when you're using the DVD player; or just impressing with an interactive art piece that learns from its participants.

The E1 team is trying to crowdsource the manufacturing costs so they can do a large run, here.

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