Thank you, Bill. I appreciate your taking the time to give detailed explanations to my gripes. I think what would greatly help PC users adopt TPU’s would be if the team managing the Coral website add the details you’ve given me to the site - or at least add reliable pointers/links to tried and trusted adapter vendors. I’ve had to scour high and low across the web often for websites to not even offer pricing because they’re industrial offerings (Asus IoT card for example); Asus in particular offer the option of contacting them for a quote, but the form provides no feedback or confirmation that it was submitted. So it’s quite pointless. But, also not your problem.
What I would love to do is have some kind of breakout board or USB adapter which could support multiple M.2 dual-Edge TPU modules to make a TPU cluster. Or perhaps you could make dual-Edge TPU USB module - then PC owners could simply buy a powered USB3 hub and fill it up. I know I’d do that in a heartbeat!
For now, I’ve had to make do with a StarTech PCIE x1 to full height mPCIe adapter card. And then MacGyver the TPU into place using cable twists (link to photo 47). It’s not pretty, but it works. For now.