Orbbec Femto Bolt – A Microsoft Azure Kinect Replacement
The Orbbec Femto Bolt is a RGBD camera based on the Microsoft Azure Kinect DK. Looky here: Introduction Late in 2023, Microsoft announced that they would no longer be producing Kinect hardware....
View ArticleRemote Management of Jetsons using Allxon
When you professionally deploy a fleet of Jetsons out into the wilds, managing them is quite the task. Fortunately, there are some great tools out there to help. One set of solutions is offered by...
View ArticleTHEIA-CAM MIPI/CSI Camera
THEIA-CAM™ (P/N THSCJ101) is a 13 Mega-Pixel MIPI/CSI camera with Phase Detection Auto Focus from THine Solutions. The THEIA-CAM works with the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano and Orin NX. Looky here:...
View ArticleContainers for Docker Intuitively Explained
Containers are an operating system feature that have a very intuitive explanation. Looky here: Background Let’s dust off the old computer science degree and go back to Operating Systems 101. We think...
View ArticleHow BIG Things Get Done – Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner
“How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between” by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner is a...
View ArticleExploring Web Programming using AI
For the last several weeks, I have been exploring web programming using AI. There are a couple of web page sketches I wanted to write. Looky here: Background There’s been a lot of noise about using AI...
View ArticleJetPack 6.1 Production Release
JetPack 6.1 is now out and about in the world! This version of JetPack is for the NVIDIA Jetson Orin series, and will not work on earlier Jetsons. I’m especially interested in faster Argus library...
View ArticleVisual Studio Code (Update 2024)
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is the most popular integrated development environment on the planet. You will see Visual Studio Code referred to as VS Code or simply Code. VS Code supports ARM...
View ArticleInstall Anaconda – All the Pythons for AI & ML!
Anaconda is a virtual Python environment that is well suited towards NVIDIA Jetson development. Installation is straightforward, and enables versions of Python up to 3.12 currently to run on your...
View ArticleJetsonHacks Newsletter – Fall 2024
This is a sample newsletter. Sign up to get email delivery! A Season of Study and Discovery In the last newsletter, I told you that August had been a study month. Apparently, my brain told me that I...
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