Using a USB Drive as the root file system on a Jetson Nano Developer Kit provides many advantages, including faster disk access and more storage. Looky here: Background For external storage, the Jetson Nano uses a Micro SD Card. The SD card holds the operating system, applications and any data Read more …
There are times when you need to have your external drives mounted when the Jetson Nano boots. Let’s go over it! Looky here: Introduction The Ubuntu documentation has a good summary of storage devices, volumes and partitions. Money quote: The word volume is used to describe a storage device, like a hard Read more …
A quick note, the repository for building the Linux kernel onboard the NVIDIA Jetson TX2 development kit has been updated. The repository is on the JetsonHacks account on Github, buildJetsonTX2Kernel. I want to thank Shreeyak (https://github.com/Shreeyak) for pointing out a version identification issue, as well as building an alternative to Read more …
In this article, we cover building the kernel and modules for the NVIDIA Jetson TX2 running L4T 28.2. We also build the CH341 module, which is a USB to serial converter. Looky here: Background Note: This article is for intermediate users. You should be familiar with the purpose of the Read more …
Have you experienced plugging in a USB device, and the Jetson not recognizing it? Sometimes all you need is the right USB to Serial Convert Kernel Module! Looky here: Background As we discovered in a previous article, Install ttyACM Module , sometimes a NVIDIA Jetson TX1 or Jetson TX2 running Read more …
A USB ttyACM device cannot be accessed on a stock L4T 28.1 installation. In this article, we cover installation of a prebuilt cdc-acm module on the NVIDIA Jetson Dev Kits running L4T 28.1 to access ttyACM devices. This works with both the Jetson TX1 and Jetson TX2. Looky here: Background Read more …
Ever wonder which L4T version is running on your NVIDIA Jetson Development Kit? There’s a script for that! Looky here: Background If you are a newcomer to the Jetson, some of the references to the operating system that runs on the device can be a little confusing. The operating system Read more …
Note: This article has been superseded. Please see: Build Kernel and Modules – NVIDIA Jetson TX1. In this article, we cover building the kernel and modules for the NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Development Kit onboard the Jetson itself. We also build the ACM module, which allows the Jetson to communicate with Read more …
A Serial Console is a useful tool for embedded development, remote access, and those times when the development kit has issues that you need to observe. Here’s a simple approach for adding a serial console. Looky here: Serial Console Background The story of serial data transfer over wires goes back Read more …
This is a short article on copying the contents of the internal flash memory of a NVIDIA Jetson TX1 over to a SD card, and then running the Jetson from the SD card itself. Looky here: Background There may be times when you want to run your Jetson TX1 from Read more …
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