Jetson Nano 2GB GPIO Header Now Up!
Some of the more popular pages on JetsonHacks are the pinouts for the GPIO headers on each of the Jetson developer kits. Here’s a new one for the Jetson Nano 2GB! The Jetson Nano 2GB GPIO J6 Header...
View ArticleVisual 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...
View ArticleState 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...
View ArticleJetPack 4.5 Production Release
JetPack 4.5 – L4T 32.5 is now available! Just some of the Jetsons supported in the new release! The big news? Boot from USB or NVMe! You should check it out. Here’s the official blurb from NVIDIA,...
View ArticleJetson Nano – Boot from USB
With the introduction of JetPack 4.5, it is now possible to boot your Jetson Nano from a USB drive! Looky here: Background The NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kits (A02, B01, and 2GB) boot and run from a...
View ArticleA.I. Triad Website
Here’s a new, useful website for Jetson related information and demonstrations: ai-triad.com The website is run by one of the newly minted Jetson Champions, Joev Valdivia. Money quote: I believe the...
View ArticleNVIDIA Jetsons on Battery Power
There are several different ways to power your NVIDIA Jetson Developer Kit using a battery. Let’s go over some of the more popular. Looky here: Background After working on several projects recently...
View ArticleJetson Antenna Mount
Many of the NVIDIA Jetson Development Kits need external antennas for their WiFi/Bluetooth cards. Many after market enclosure manufacturers offer mounting points for external antennas. However there...
View ArticleJetPack 4.6 Production Release
JetPack 4.6 – L4T 32.6.1 is now available! Just some of the Jetsons supported in the new release (Image courtesy of NVIDIA) JetPack 4.6 is the latest release for the NVIDIA Jetson Developer Kits and...
View ArticleNative Boot for Jetson Xaviers
With the advent of JetPack 4.6 (L4T 32.6.1) it is now possible to boot the Jetson AGX Xavier and Jetson Xavier NX from external storage. Looky here: Background In the JetPack 4.6 release Cboot now has...
View ArticleUbuntu Package Lists – NVIDIA Jetson
When recently setting up a Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit to boot from a SSD, we needed to figure out what packages to install on top of the default Ubuntu distribution. The answer? Package Lists!...
View ArticleFall Cleaning Repositories, 2021
We’re starting fall cleaning here at JetsonHacks! That means updating some of our code repositories and articles. With the release of JetPack 4.6, there’s a lot of work and heavy lifting we need to...
View ArticleMore Fall Cleaning, 2021
Fall cleaning continues here at JetsonHacks. The last week here we’ve been doing some deep cleaning, working on the operating system level repositories. Updating Repositories One area that has changed...
View ArticleWi-Fi Hotspot Setup – NVIDIA Jetson Developer Kits
Setting up a Wi-Fi Hotspot using the Network Manager GUI on the NVIDIA Jetsons is simple, but there is a trick. Looky here: Background Being able to access your Jetson through a wireless hotspot is a...
View ArticleGStreamer Inspector GUI
Introduction GStreamer is one of the basic ways of handling media components on the NVIDIA Jetsons. One of the main uses is to handle video sources such as cameras and files. It’s nice to have a GUI...
View ArticleNVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin
At the latest GTC, NVIDIA announced that they will begin shipping the Jetson AGX Orin in early 2022. NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit Introduction The Jetson AGX Orin is the next generation AGX...
View ArticlePython Code Cleaning – GUI GStreamer Inspector
A while back, we wrote a Python software sketch that implements a GUI for inspecting GStreamer plugins and features. Let’s revisit the code, and clean it up! Looky here: Introduction There are many...
View ArticleState of JetsonHacks 2021
The end of another year. In a lot of ways, it felt like 2021 was the sad little brother of 2020. As we head into 2022, it feels like things are beginning to change, and we are getting ready to make up...
View ArticleIn Depth: Cameras
This is the start of a new set of articles which provide a deeper explanation of the concepts around the NVIDIA Jetson family of products. In many of the previous articles on JetsonHacks, we have been...
View ArticleJetson Camera Coding
Jetson Camera Coding is the associated code for the upcoming “In Practice” series on working with cameras. There are three repositories: camera-caps The JetsonHacks Github repository camera-caps...
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