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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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Interesting. I hadn't seen that, but the NVidia numbers on their own products seem credible. I do agree that the flexibility of having real CUDA cores is nice.

couldn't this play games then? seems to be a pretty nice platform for a homebrew videogame console.

definitely could. retroarch would run great under linux, and a wide variety of cores are available.

but im more interested as a cudann box

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99$ With 50$ shipping to France. What a great deal /s Or straight up 130€ (150$) from Nvidia France. Not quite 99$.

Precisely. I would love to see this succeed but it's not $99 even in the US - with Arrow, there's tax taking it up $120 and then the UK shipping cost is about the same as you found for France ($42-44 depending on option).

Feels like this could have been better managed - especially with the 16 week delivery time! Unlike the Coral which was announced, ordered and in my hands within three days!

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I never said anything about a phone charger. Are you confused who you are replying to?

Maybe the reply was meant for me? Maybe it's just me but because there is no off switch on a Rpi I am constantly plugging and unplugging it, I have found the receiver or female part of the connector on the board tends to get loose from that, that is where the loss of power seems to be coming from, I have run into this issue with my BLU amazon phone also. I'm just not a fan of the micro USB connector I guess, but mayb…

Actually I don't know if it is just cheap cables, I am not sure if it is the male or the female part of the connection that is degrading. The next time I get into town I am going to purchase a "Premium" USB to micro cable and a new PSU and will see if that solves my issue. I am concerned that my past ebay and dollar store purchases may have corrupted my stock of cables with factory 2nds and rejects.

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spent $1500 (By flying from Minnesota to LA and renting a boat to get salt from the sea)

You're right, he cheated by using premade vehicles. He should've made those himself

I think the animal husbandry skill tree would be fastest, but children and a sedan chair would work if more time was available.

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There are recent low-cost NVMe drives that do 2x, I believe.

If a PCIe device doesn't fall back to the available channels that is most likely a bug. An NVMe from a reputable manufacturer should work in this slot.

I really don't think it's that easy. Find a picture of an m2 drive has a connector that would fit an "M.2 E" slot. The connector would have to look like this: https://www.addonics.com/products/diagrams/M2-E-KEY-WIFI-CAR...

I don't see any.

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I also love this showerthought from reddit: All the materials for wverything made has existed on earth for billions of years, they just werent assembled in the right order yet.

Humans are the right collection of molecules to form a self aware machine that can make showerthoughts. We are literally animate matter.

But did we have any of them before we invented the shower?

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I am continually amazed that we're able to buy better and cheaper processors that no one could have dreamed about at such power/cost 50 years ago. I estimate it would take me and you maybe 1 year to learn how to build / assemble most things you find in your house that cost $1000 in a store -- a couch, a rug, even a simple kitchen appliance (the dumb kind). But a CPU / computer? I could not invent that given 10,000 ye…

Good that cannot be manufactured by hand require specialized tools. These can be as simple as a hammer or a fully automated CNC machine. Nowadays the most desired goods can only be manufactured by those specialized tools. Therefore if you want to manufacture a single unit you need those tools. However after building a single tool it doesn't matter how many units you actually produce. Therefore it becomes more expensive to produce less and cheaper to produce more. This is called economies of scale. You cannot build a CPU because building a single one is incredibly expensive per unit. A million? Dirt cheap (only $99 in this case).

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

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I am continually amazed that we're able to buy better and cheaper processors that no one could have dreamed about at such power/cost 50 years ago. I estimate it would take me and you maybe 1 year to learn how to build / assemble most things you find in your house that cost $1000 in a store -- a couch, a rug, even a simple kitchen appliance (the dumb kind). But a CPU / computer? I could not invent that given 10,000 ye…

> I could not invent that given 10,000 years

Invent CPUs, probably not. That took tens of millions of hours across decades of iterations.

But it’s actually not impossible to create your own CPU from scratch. I’d suggest starting off with a $50 or less FPGA and start learning about the logical building blocks of a modern CPU. You can then advance to building up a basic CPU fairly easily. Creating a full featured ISA and then designing out the circuits and having the chip actually fabbed is not trivial, but I know of many hobbyists who have, so it’s certainly doable if you’re dedicated enough.

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