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JetPack 4.5 Production Release
JetPack 4.5 – L4T 32.5 is now available! The big news? Boot from USB or NVMe! You should check it out. Here’s the official blurb from NVIDIA, note the Webinars on Feb. 9 and Feb. 11, 2021: We are pleased to announce JetPack 4.5 1, a production release supporting Jetson AGX Xavier Read more …

State of JetsonHacks 2020
“May you live in interesting times.” Some people are going to look back on 2020, but it will be difficult to get any type of useful, reasonable perspective for several years. But I know you don’t care about any of that. You want to know how it effects JetsonHacks. First, Read more …

Visual Studio Code
Microsoft now supports ARM 64 machines like the NVIDIA Jetsons and Raspberry Pi within Visual Studio Code. Looky here: Background Last year we did an article on installing Visual Studio Code using a community build. While this is great, Microsoft now supports ARM 64 builds directly. In addition in the Read more …
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$59 Jetson Nano 2GB
At GTC today, NVIDIA announces the new Jetson Nano 2GB priced at only $59! Looky here: Background Back in March 2019, NVIDIA introduced the the Jetson Nano. Today, NVIDIA announces it’s little brother, the Jetson Nano 2GB. The Jetson Nano 2GB is available for pre-order. In addition to the Nano Read more …

NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit
The $399 NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit is the new Jetson powerhouse on the block. Looky here: Introduction The Jetson Xavier NX dev kit brings Jetson Xavier performance to help solve AI and robotics where you need some serious machine learning horsepower. The entry level Jetson Nano is a Read more …

NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit
The NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit is a $99 Jetson built for Maker and AI projects. Looky here: Background There have been several models of the Jetson over the last 5 years, starting with the Jetson TK1 and most recently the Jetson AGX Xavier. Each model is much more powerful Read more …
RACECAR/J

RACECAR/J – Programming the Electronic Speed Controller
RACECAR/J is now using VESC 6 electronic speed controllers. Newer versions of the VESC now require the new VESC Tool to program them. Looky here: Background For RACECAR/J, we replace the stock TRAXXAS ESC with the VESC 6 Plus from Trampa Boards. This is the official VESC from the creator Read more …

Install VESC 6 Plus on RACECAR/J
Installing the VESC 6 Plus on the platform consists of several steps. First, remove the protective wrap on the platform. The VESC 6 Plus will be mounted to the bottom of the platform. Using the 4 supplied M5 screws, attach the VESC to the left side of the car. The Read more …

RACECAR/J FlatNose Platform Part 2
In RACECAR/J FlatNose Platfrom Part I we built up the lower FlatNose platform. In an earlier article, we built a chassis. Now we attach them together. Looky here: Introduction Building even a simple robot like RACECAR/J usually means several assembly steps. Now that we’ve built the chassis and the platform Read more …

RACECAR/J FlatNose Platform Part I
Note: Everything in the RACECAR/J store is 10% off from Black Friday to Cyber Monday. In earlier articles, we built a RACECAR/J using the MIT platform specification. The MIT platform accepts a Jetson TX Development Kit, a Hokuyo UST-10LX Lidar, and a Stereolabs ZED camera for the computing and sensing Read more …

Record and Playback Actions under ROS – RACECAR/J
One of the first things people like to do with their RACECAR is gather data. Using ROS we can record and playback actions. It’s easy! Looky here: Background The usual note here: You should definitely have the book “Programming Robots with ROS, a practical introduction to the Robot Operating System” Read more …

Exploring ROS – RACECAR/J
Exploring ROS is easy using the both the built-in tools and additional GUI based tools. Looky here: This is a little different than most the content on JetsonHacks. Basically we bring up a running ROS system using the MIT RACECAR stack and take a look around. This gives some background Read more …