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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
by varispeed 6y ago
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.
- detaro 6y agoThey are literally development kits for the embedded chips and modules NVidia sells. What you prototype on a dev kit you can easily transfer to production hardware that incorporates those modules. And if you just do CUDA experiments with it, those transfer at least partially to other environments (e.g. desktop/server hardware with GPUs) too. Where do you get the idea this isn't transferable?
- varispeed 6y agoI tried to find any documentation, schematics, code and I can't see it anywhere on that website.
- barkingcat 6y agoThe Jetson Nano is the "small" SDK for the Jetson Xavier series which is Nvidia's embedded ai platform for volume (ie they will sell you thousands of units of them for volume manufacturing in cars, etc) - that's always been the draw for the Jetson Nano - you use the hardware for prototyping and when you are ready, buy the larger and more expensive Xavier and that goes into your hardware product. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-agx-xavier/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-sy...
- varispeed 6y agoI tried to find any documentation, code, schematics but gave up after 30 minutes. Who is this for? It seems like this product is for people who want to say they do AI and show some PCBs on their Instagram.
- ageitgey 6y agoThese get a lot of use in limited-run industrial applications where you need something custom and smaller/lower power than a desktop computer but you aren't manufacturing thousands of devices and you don't have millions of dollars to develop custom hardware. You can take pretty much any model you trained on a desktop GPU and run it on the board without any changes which is nice for the right kind of project. And they sell a range of modules with a spectrum of price/performance/power draw depending on how much processing power you need. If you are manufacturing something in larger volume, they will sell you production modules without the dev boards that you can mount on your own boards. But those are still aimed at more expensive products. So this isn't a solution for low-cost high volume consumer products, but there is definitely a market for it.
- homarp 6y agoYou have various Jetson Nano 'pro' boxes, like: + https://www.aaeon.com/en/c/aaeon-nvidia-ai-solutions https://www.aaeon.com/en/c/aaeon-nvidia-ai-solutions + https://www.avermedia.com/professional/category/nvidia_jetson_solutions https://www.avermedia.com/professional/category/nvidia_jetso... and you have certain numbers of custom design using the Nano compute module https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano