Teach Awards 2025

The UNIHIKER K10 is a compact, all-in-one TinyML-based AI coding board that makes AI accessible to students between the ages of 11 and 14. Out of the box, the UNIHIKER K10 combines vision AI, voice control and machine learning to enable easy exploration of image detection and voice recognition applications. With its support for environmental sensors – covering temperature, humidity, light and motion – it’s ideal for demonstrating AI learning processes. The inclusion of a 2.8-inch display, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth connectivity, 2MP camera, microphone, speaker and RGB light indicator results in a compact and streamlined unit well-suited to a wide range of data collection uses, without the need for complex setups and configurations. Students can use the unit’s built-in camera and accelerometer to gather visual and motion data, and connect sensors for measuring temperature, humidity or sound via USB/GPIO to create interdisciplinary datasets. Via the UNIHIKER K10’s edge connectors and Gravity I/O interface, students can easily connect and control additional digital/ analog sensors, I2C/UART actuators and other assorted peripherals, making for a complete ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) solution without requiring any additional hardware. The UNIHIKER K10 integrates TinyML technology for local data processing, as well as real-time inference without cloud dependency, thus empowering students to build smart, offline systems that are compatible with plug-and-play sensors – a marked contrast with comparable browser-based tools. The UNIHIKER K10 comes with four vision AI models pre-installed (for human faces, cats/dogs, QR codes and motion detection), allowing students to easily start exploring the visual recognition tasks that AI can potentially be used for. Pre-installed voice models are also included, making the UNIHIKER K10 capable of offline speech recognition with the aid of the aforementioned built-in microphone. Taken together, the UNIHIKER K10 is the perfect tool for students embarking on IoT design projects, scientific investigations and other hands-on learning projects. There’s even onboard support for graphical and MicroPython programming languages, making it a suitable tool for use by students working at different skill levels. For more information regarding the potential applications of the UNIHIKER K10, visit dfrobot.com Acquaint your students with multimodal, AI-powered data collection with the help of this ‘do it all’ coding board AI FOR ALL Contact: store@dfrobot.com | dfrobot.com 28 | www.teachawards.com