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MS Kinect V2 on NVIDIA Jetson TX1
With a USB firmware patch and an updated libfreenect2, the Microsoft Kinect V2 now runs on the Jetson TX1 Development Kit. Looky here: Background For a stretch there it was not possible to run the open...
View ArticleL4T and JetPack on NVIDIA Jetson TX1
I have been reading the Jetson Forum lately and there seems to be a general confusion as to the relationship between JetPack and Linux for Tegra (L4T) version 24.1. A reader wrote in and asked a...
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Jetson RACECAR 11 – Arduino ROS Node for Car Control
In the eleventh part of our Jetson RACECAR build we construct a breadboard to interface the car with the Jetson using an Arduino ROS Node. Then we install the software, and test using a ROS...
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Anthony Virtuoso’s Jetson TX1 Rover Project
Anthony Virtuoso from New York, New York just finished building a hardware stack for a rover robot based on the Jetson TX1. Now he’s getting ready to write the software that allows the robot to run...
View ArticleThoughts on Programming Languages and Environments – Jetson Dev Kits
Over the last couple of years, I have been thinking and reflecting on programming languages and environments. Programming as a skill (or art depending on how you view such things) has gone through many...
View ArticleThoughts on Programming Languages and Environments Part II – Jetson Dev Kits
In our previous discussion about programming, we discussed what the target development environments were like 10 years ago. Desktops were generally programmed using C# on Windows PCs, and the Macintosh...
View ArticleThoughts on Programming Languages and Environments Part III – Jetson Dev Kits
In Part II of our discussion about programming, we talked about when some of the more popular programming languages came into existence, and how people used them. In this part of the discussion, we’ll...
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Thoughts on Programming Languages and Environments Part IV – Jetson Dev Kits
In Part III of this series, we discussed how the Unix kernel came to life using the C programming language, and a little bit of the genesis of the kernel. We also noted that there are some issues using...
View ArticleGo (Golang) – NVIDIA Jetson Dev Kits
The Go programming language (sometimes called Golang) is a modern programming language which aims to “make it easy to build simple, reliable and efficient software”. Background As we discussed in the...
View ArticleGo (Golang) Part II – NVIDIA Jetson Dev Kits
In Part I of our Go (Golang) discussion, we went over why Go might be a good programming language for embedded systems. It is certainly worth you time to go to their website and explore the information...
View ArticleWhat is Programming Again? – Thoughts on Programming
Exactly what is programming again? We’ve been discussing some programming languages, and some assumptions about what programming should be like today. Back in the 1973 Bret Victor gave a seminal talk...
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ROS Rviz – NVIDIA Jetson TK1
RViz is a 3D visualizer for the Robot Operating System (ROS) framework. In a lot of cases, RViz is run on a visualization workstation to monitor a robot. However, sometimes it is useful to have RViz...
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JetPack 2.3 Development Tools Released – NVIDIA Jetson Development Kits
JetPack 2.3 for the NVIDIA Jetson Development Kits is now out in the wild! JetPack 2.3 is available here. Background JetPack is an on-demand package which installs all of the software tools required to...
View ArticleCaffe Deep Learning Framework – 64-bit NVIDIA Jetson TX1
Back in February, we installed Caffe on the TX1. At the time, the TX1 was running a 32-bit version of L4T 23.1. With the advent of the 64-bit L4T 24.2, this seems like a good time to do a performance...
View ArticleBuild TX1 Kernel and Modules – NVIDIA Jetson TX1
In this article, we cover building a kernel onboard the NVIDIA Jetson TX1. Looky here: Background and Motivation Note: This article is for intermediate users, and the methods within are somewhat...
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Sony PlayStation Eye – NVIDIA Jetson TX1
In our last article, we built a kernel for the Jetson TX1. In this article, we go over an example of how to build a simple module for the ubiquitous Sony PlayStation Eye for the Jetson TX1. Looky here:...
View ArticleIntel RealSense Camera Installation – NVIDIA Jetson TX1
Intel RealSense cameras can use an open source library called librealsense as a driver for the Jetson TX1 development kit. Looky here: Background Note: This article is intended for intermediate users...
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Thoughts on Programming Languages and Environments Part IV – Jetson Dev Kits
In Part III of this series, we discussed how the Unix kernel came to life using the C programming language, and a little bit of the genesis of the kernel. We also noted that there are some issues using...
View ArticleGo (Golang) – NVIDIA Jetson Dev Kits
The Go programming language (sometimes called Golang) is a modern programming language which aims to “make it easy to build simple, reliable and efficient software”. Background As we discussed in the...
View ArticleGo (Golang) Part II – NVIDIA Jetson Dev Kits
In Part I of our Go (Golang) discussion, we went over why Go might be a good programming language for embedded systems. It is certainly worth you time to go to their website and explore the information...
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