Exploring the Microverse: Machine Learning on Microcontrollers

Machine learning is getting lots of attention in the maker community, expanding outward from the realms of academia and industry and making its way into DIY projects. With traditional programming you explicitly tell a computer what it needs to do using code; with machine learning the computer finds its own solution to a problem, based on examples you've shown it. You can use machine learning to work with complex datasets that would be very difficult to hard-code, and the computer can find connections you might miss! How does machine learning (ML) actually work? Let's use the classic example: training a machine to recognize the difference between pictures of cats and dogs. Imagine that a small child, with an adult, is looking at a book full of pictures of cats and dogs.