User guide

BrainChip Connect is the phone app that talks to an AkidaTag over Bluetooth Low Energy. This guide is for someone who has the app on a phone and an AkidaTag in hand. It describes what the current version of the app does, screen by screen, and nothing it does not do.

Which boards this guide covers

The AkidaTag is the board this guide is written for. The app also connects to an Arduino Nicla Vision fitted with a BrainBoard1500 that runs BrainChip’s Bluetooth demo sketch; what is different on that board is collected in one section of the demos chapter.

The chapters

1. Install the app and grant its permissions
2. Find and connect an AkidaTag
3. The screens
4. The demos
5. Update the AkidaTag firmware
6. Load a model
7. Troubleshooting

Where else to look

• The AkidaTag itself: its documentation site, and the AkidaTag page on the BrainChip Developer Hub, which is the product page.
• Help and questions: the BrainChip Discord.
• Bugs in the app: open an issue on GitHub.
• Security problems: report them privately through the repository’s Security tab, under Report a vulnerability, rather than in a public issue.
• The app’s source code: github.com/Brainchip-Inc/BrainChip-Connect, with a developer guide for building on it.