I booted mine Radxa Rock (rk3188) with BareBox, ArchLinux ARM and a mainline kernel. It just took me few hundred hours to figure out all the problems on my way there. And it's one of the most open source friendly ARM SOCs.
I wish luck to everyone buying these things. You'll need it to run any modern distro in a few years.
This person got hold of a review board and write up an interesting detailed tutorial: https://medium.com/@ageitgey/build-a-face-recognition-system...
I have the 4GB version of the Nano and the 4GB Raspberry Pi. I like the Nano, but I use it mostly as a development machine and for that I would rank the 8GB Raspberry Pi at about $89 US the best deal. Substantially below that is the Nano, and almost tied is 4GB Pi. There may be cases where you absolutely need an Nvidia machine in which case I would argue for the 4GB version, but otherwise the 8GB Pi appears to be the winner by a long shot.
What are the use-cases for a GPU-accelerated single board computer?
Strange Idea:
Someone could use this SBC -- not as an SBC, but as a discrete video card...
That is, have a computer without a video card -- communicate with this SBC via USB or Ethernet -- and have it perform all of the functions of a video card to generate the display output...
After all, it's got quite a high power GPU in it...
Yes, it would be a bit slower than a PCIe based high-end graphics card... this idea is for experimentation only.
One idea, once this is done, is to decouple the GUI part of any Operating System you write -- and have that part, and that part alone, run on the SBC / GPU.
Yes, X-Windows/X11 already exists and can do something like this.
But if say, you (as an OS designer) felt that X-Windows was too complex and bloated, and you wanted to implement something similar to Windows' GUI -- but a lighter version, and decoupled from the base Operating System -- then what I've outlined above might be one way to set things up while the coding is occurring...
Again, doing something like this would be for people that wanted to experiment, only...
For video playback, CSS3 transitions/animations, gaming etc., how much better is the GPU in the Jetson Nano compared to the one in the RPi4? Just to get an idea.
Looks great and I'm glad the sales numbers have given them the ammunition nvidia execs needed to keep pushing the price down well into hobbyist range. I'm trying to preorder a couple, but...
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Edit: it's live now! [1][2]
[1] https://www.seeedstudio.com/NVIDIA-Jetson-Nano-2GB-Developer...
I want to setup something like this for my daughter's primary grade school meetings using Zoom. Any suggestions? Are the Pis or this device up to par now for such use case? I totally do not like Chromebooks, and standard laptops are an overkill.
I have Odroid H2 in here as my main system, quad core X86, M2 slot for SSD, user-friendly RAM (SO-DIMM, currently 8GB installed supports up to 32GB), SATA ports, runs fanless 40degrees Celsius for most of the time. Lovely bit of kit.
Meanwhile a production ready nano will set you $1000 back.
A five year old ARM chip, the X1[1] is now far & away the best graphics one can get on an $100 single-board-computer.
Double amusing, there is now an ARM core called the X1, a heavyweight follow up to the A76 for bigger form factors.
Honest question, why would I choose this over an "old" Android phone that I already have in my drawer?
No WiFi kills it for me
I don't see a good use of this over Raspberry Pi and Pi + Intel Neural Stick.
This seems like it could be useful for home automation.
Is this enough power to do voice recognition? I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, I haven't done anything with ML before.
Can we be done with the Cortex A57? It's ancient.
Slightly off topic but Iām wondering if there is a new Nvidia Shield coming out, they seem to have released them end of October in past years...
I was excited until I read the hn comments below. Sounds quite painful still. Which is a more issue for enthusiasm driven tinkering
How does the performance compare to a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2 GB ram?
But can it run Kodi with 4k streaming?
tl;dr: It's the same device as before in terms of processing, but with less RAM and fewer connectivity options (and therefore cheaper)
What about a commitment to providing customers with proper hardware schematics and detailed datasheets? (yes, even if the board itself isn't opensource)
I lost faith in using raspberry pi 4s because the foundation is very tight-lipped. Want to know why your board is behaving weirdly, or whether the behavior is expected or a result of a defect? TOUGH LUCK. You'll have to rely on outdated forum posts, SO answers, and (if you're really lucky) the good mood of the engineer monitoring these sites.
I'd rather stick to building for a well-understood but expensive platform like x86 than undocumented black boxes.
Hey now, having the words "cat" and "dog" printed next to the pictures of the cat and the dog is cheating!
What is exactly the point of such devices? If you create something worthwhile with it, you cannot exactly include it in your product. I get that you can create something like a one off garage opener based on face recognition, but you won't learn any real world knowledge of developing a product and if you later on decide that this is something for you, you'll have to learn a whole new ecosystem. These devices remind me of "game maker" software claiming you could make your own game with it, but you were limited with what developer had in store for you and you wouldn't become a game developer from using it.
I have a Jetson nano. It's a nice thing for what it is, and the price.
But, the software misses the mark by a lot. It's still based on Ubuntu 18.04.
Want python later than 3.6? Not in the box. A lot of python modules need compiling, and the cpu is what you'd expect. Good for what it is, bad for compiling large numbers or packages.
They run a fancy modern desktop based on the Ubuntu one. Sure, it's Nvidia, gotta be flashy. But that eats a quarter of the memory in the device and make the SOC run crazy hot all the time.
These aren't insurmountable issues, they just left a bad taste in my mouth. In theory I only have to do setup changes once, but it's still a poor experience