I got a hold of a Jetson nano dev kit for a project for work. It’s got a lot of similarities to the raspberry pi, as far as initial setup. One loads the OS image on a memory card and hooks up monitor, keyboard, mouse, and ethernet, and the Jetson Nano becomes a single board computer, except it has a Tegra X1 SoC with a quad core CPU and 128 core GPU.
The Nano standard OS from NVIDIA is Ubuntu, which is debian based and has a familiar feel for me, which will be handy as I begin python scripting with the TensorFlow library.
All in all my first impression of the device is pleased and optimistic, and with the price being what it is for all the computing and graphics power I get, I wonder if I might be looking at NVIDIA products for my single board computing needs in the future. One drawback: the Jetson Nano dev kit lacks a builtin wifi radio, but then, so did the early raspberry Pi’s.
