Amazon Echo Look Camera Goes for $50 with Intel Atom x5, RealSense Camera SR300

Amazon Echo Look is a smart camera with Alexa Assistant that was launched about 2 years ago for $200, and designed to help you decide if your outfit is a good match, beside taking photo and video selfies with voice commands. Sales may not have matched Amazon expectations (unsurprisingly), and the product is now offered for just $49.99.

Echo Look

What may be interesting for CNX Software readers is that Echo Look appears to be a consumer version of AWS DeepLens deep learning video camera for developers ($249), plus some cost savings as well, so there may be some hacking potential here. A teardown video – embedded below – reveals some interesting specifications:

  • SoC – Intel Atom x5-Z8350 quad core Cherry Trail processor @ up to 1.44 GHz
  • System Memory – 1 GB LPDDR3
  • Storage – 8GB eMMC flash, 16 Mbit SPI flash
  • Camera – Intel RealSense SR300 depth sensing camera + Amazon’s own camera module
  • Audio – Microphone array
  • Connectivity – Dual band 802.11ac WiFi 5, Bluetooth 4.1 via Broadcom BCM43570 (now known as Cypress CYW43750)
  • Texas Instruments PMIC

At $50 the hardware is incredible value, as if you were to buy an Intel Atom x5 stick ($92 shipped) plus an Intel RealSense camera SR300  ($100+ on eBay) separately the total cost would run at around $200.

There remains to be seen if the product is really easily hackable, especially Amazon replaced one of the SR300 camera in Echo Look for whatever reasons, but a good place to get started might be on AWS DeepLens product page with resources for developers.

Thanks to Jon for the tip.

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