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Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

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Re: Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

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I wish these tiny SBCs came with SATA or m.2 so I could hook up an SSD. I know microSD is catching up, but it's not there yet.

Check out the odroid hc1 or hc2. You still have to boot from the microSD card, but you could put most of the OS on the drive connected to the SATA port.

Re: Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

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$99 seems like a pretty good deal, am I missing anything? 4 gigs of RAM and _reasonable_ eMMC + PCI expansion could allow it to be a cheap casual use workstation, right?

How does it stack up with the RK3399 in the RockPro64? I'm assuming the GPU and software support is better?

Re: Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

self driving small car, nerf turret that shoots anyone who is not you, following drone, cat stalking drone, cat stalking self driving "rc" car, auto bird identification camera in your backyard "this is a bird of type X" with voice or screen with instance detection/segmentation

what gear would one best use to make those gadgets self-recharging? one the non-charging idea side there would be the AI network traffic analyzer (just requires another 1G connector via USB)

Induction charging pad + receiver.

Re: Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

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I wish these tiny SBCs came with SATA or m.2 so I could hook up an SSD. I know microSD is catching up, but it's not there yet.

Odroid H2 has 2 X SATA 3.0 - https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h2/

A number of others have mini PCIE that you can add a PCIE SATA board to - https://www.amazon.com/Port-Controller-AsMedia-ASM1061-Chips...

Re: Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

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the pricepoint is good, relative to the jetson tx1/2 (299-749 usd) and xavier (1099 usd).

some of my notes, there is a massive heatsink on this thing, probably for both the a57 cpu and maxwell gpu, this will make your case a bit larger than say the rpi.

not sure how the a57 compares to rpi’s a53, i assume both are armv8, quad-core.

the inputs seem identical to rpi 3 model b+, hdmi, ethernet, 4 usb (seems 2.0), mini usb, there’s also an additional usb looking port on top of hdmi.

storage seems the same as rpi, except that it’s built in 16G mmc flash whereas rpi you need to separately plugin a microsd card.

overall this has potential if you need to do more gpu intensive work, i like the form factor.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-sy...

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