I dig the idea behind what Coral is doing in general. However, the one product I got from them, and USB edge TPU (“USB Accelerator”), hasn't been well supported after it was released. After some digging, it seems that their “python3-pycoral” package doesn’t work on version of python greater than 3.9 (I've read that there is a hack to get it working with 3.10). I'm running Debian stable, not exactly bleeding edge, and it ships with python 3.11. So basically I have to run a downgraded VM just to use this thing.
These propriety products live and die based on their support. And every time I use any kind of propriety product, I get burned this way.
I dig the idea behind what Coral is doing in general. However, the one product I got from them, and USB edge TPU (“USB Accelerator”), hasn't been well supported after it was released. After some digging, it seems that their “python3-pycoral” package doesn’t work on version of python greater than 3.9 (I've read that there is a hack to get it working with 3.10). I'm running Debian stable, not exactly bleeding edge, and it ships with python 3.11. So basically I have to run a downgraded VM just to use this thing.
These propriety products live and die based on their support. And every time I use any kind of propriety product, I get burned this way.