Well, that escalated quickly.
Quick reminder on what the Demo Jam set out to be: a video, post, repo or share of something you've built with Metis and the Voyager SDK. A cool technique, a feature demo, a work-in-progress, all fair game. What I did not expect was for a bunch of you to turn up with fully deployed, real-world projects. You lot clearly did not get the "keep it simple" memo, and I'm definitely not complaining 😆. Worth a browse through the Demo Jam group if you haven't already.
🏆 The winner: @fxgomezco
👉 Real-time single-cell tracking for unattended research microscopy, powered by Axelera Metis M.2
The team at Winkoms Open Microscopy built a closed-loop tracking system for live Paramecium specimens: YOLOv8-seg running on Metis M.2 + Radxa Rock 5 ITX+, driving a motorised XY microscopy stage that keeps individual microorganisms centred in the field of view. 88.6 FPS, 38°C thermally stable, and a single continuous tracking session of nearly 6 hours! And it's not a bench demo, it's in actual behavioural studies with Dr. Humbert Salvadó's group at the Universitat de Barcelona.
The write-up also includes a super useful chunk on patching the DTB on the Rock 5 ITX+ to expand the PCIe MEM window from 14MB up to 512MB so Metis will run at ful thrape. If you've ever hit mysterious PCIe failures on an RK3588 board, that paragraph alone is worth the visit.
A 4 Quad-Core Metis PCIe Card is on its way to you! Well earned.
Not only, but also: @dilip.m
The Demo Jam has one winner by design. But Dilip basically turned up and ran his own one-man campaign, so we're not going to pretend that didn't happen. Four entries, all worth your time:
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Air Steering: a gesture-controlled racing game controller. YOLO11n-pose-hands, wrist tilt to steer, fist to accelerate, open palm to brake. Works with any keyboard-based racing game.
- Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock: a fully local gesture game against a Sheldon Cooper AI opponent. YOLOv10n trained on the HaGRID dataset, with a useful write-up of YOLOv10 quantization gotchas on Metis.
- Air Piano: play musical instruments with empty hands. Dilip tried drums too, but admits that one needs a bit more skill from the player.
- Strike a Pose: a pose-matching party game. YOLOv8-pose on Metis, cosine similarity against pre-extracted keypoints from movie stills (Karate Kid, Rocky, Titanic) and athletes (Bolt, Ronaldo). Fully local, no cloud.
All generously written up, making them easy for anyone to replicate. That's exactly the sort of contribution that makes this community worth having, so a Metis PCIe card is heading Dilip's way as well. Consider it an unofficial "effort tax". 😂
What's next
Demo Jam #2 is already queued up. Same format, new month. If you're working on something right now, even half-finished, that's fine. We actively want WIPs. Watch this space for the launch.
Thanks to everyone who submitted, commented, or just watched and liked. This only works when people turn up, and you did. Keep building, folks! See you in round two.
