I ran MNIST digit recognition on an ESP32-C3 — without TensorFlow, TFLite, or any ML runtime.
The neural network is compiled directly into a C header and executed as firmware.
From Perceptrons to a Cross-Platform NN CLI for Edge Inference
It started, like many questionable engineering projects, with curiosity about a perceptron.
I wasn’t trying to build anything serious. Just a small experiment to understand how far I could push a minimal neural network implementation without relying on any framework.
