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Under the Hood of the Arduino UNO Q: Vanilla Zephyr on the Cortex-M33 Arduino

Under the Hood of the Arduino UNO Q: Vanilla Zephyr on the Cortex-M33

Part three of the UNO Q series removes the App Lab, Arduino core, sketch loader and just uses west, a devicetree, and our own Zephyr firmware on the board's STM32U585, driving the 13x8 LED matrix through Zephyr's display API with grayscale functionality.

Derek Molloy Derek Molloy · Jul 30, 2026 · 50 min read
The OpenMV AE3: A Time-of-Flight Doorman for the NPU OpenMV

The OpenMV AE3: A Time-of-Flight Doorman for the NPU

Part two of the OpenMV series shrinks the board and the power to a quarter of a watt, while running YOLO. Built on Alif's Ensemble E3 with two Cortex-M55s and two Ethos-U55 NPUs, the AE3 also carries something its bigger sibling does not, a VL53L8CX 8x8 ToF depth sensor.

Derek Molloy Derek Molloy · Jul 26, 2026 · 42 min read
The OpenMV N6: A MicroPython Camera with a Real NPU OpenMV

The OpenMV N6: A MicroPython Camera with a Real NPU

The OpenMV N6 pairs an 800 MHz Cortex-M55 with ST's 600-GOPS Neural-ART NPU and a removable global-shutter camera, and MicroPython - YOLO object detection at 30 fps, in Python, under a watt. We tour the hardware properly, walk through setup, and build a people-counting application on the NPU.

Derek Molloy Derek Molloy · Jul 24, 2026 · 25 min read
A Real Dual-Brain Application on the Arduino UNO Q: an AI Brick, a Camera, and a Presence Lamp Arduino

A Real Dual-Brain Application on the Arduino UNO Q: an AI Brick, a Camera, and a Presence Lamp

Part two of the UNO Q series puts the board's dual-brain design to real work - a vision AI Brick on the Linux side detects a person through a camera, and the microcontroller side turns that into a smoothly breathing lamp that never stutters, no matter how hard the AI is working.

Derek Molloy Derek Molloy · Jul 22, 2026 · 19 min read
Getting to Know the Arduino UNO Q: Two Brains, One Board, and Zephyr Underneath Arduino

Getting to Know the Arduino UNO Q: Two Brains, One Board, and Zephyr Underneath

The Arduino UNO Q pairs a quad-core Linux processor with a real-time STM32 microcontroller on one UNO-shaped board, and quietly runs Zephyr where the classic Arduino runtime used to be. This guide takes an engineer's look at the architecture.

Derek Molloy Derek Molloy · Jul 21, 2026 · 30 min read