What 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...
View ArticleRobot Operating System (ROS) on NVIDIA Jetson TX1
Robot Operating System (ROS) can now be installed from Debian packages on the 64-bit L4T 24.2 Jetson TX1. Looky here: Background As discussed previously, the 64-bit ARM environment is relatively new....
View ArticleIntel RealSense Package for ROS on NVIDIA Jetson TX1
Intel provides an open source ROS package for their RealSense cameras. In this article, we install the package on the Jetson TX1. In the video, we even take the package out for a spin with a RealSense...
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Single Chip LIDAR – VL53L0X – NVIDIA Jetson Dev Kits
ST Microelectronics recently introduced an inexpensive single chip time of flight sensor. The VL53L0X can be interfaced to a Jetson Development Kit (either TX1 or TK1) over I2C. Looky here: Background...
View ArticleLIDAR on a Chip Outside – NVIDIA Jetson Development Kits
In the previous article on the LIDAR on a Chip, some folks asked if it is possible to run the chip outdoors. Looky here: This is just a short article on how the test was done. The LIDAR on a Chip in...
View ArticleJetson TX1 Swap File and Development Preparation
Adding a swapfile and doing some preparation for development is one of the first things to do after flashing a NVIDIA Jetson Development Kit. Looky here: Background Over the last couple of years, the...
View ArticleTensorFlow on NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Development Kit
Building TensorFlow on the NVIDIA Jetson TX1 is a little more complicated than some of the installations we have done in the past. Looky here: Background TensorFlow is one of the major deep learning...
View ArticleInstall TensorFlow on NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Development Kit
You just finished looking at TensorFlow on NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Development Kit and are wondering, “Is there anyway that I could actually use TensorFlow on the Jetson TX1 without having to compile the...
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State of JetsonHacks 2016
First I want to thank everyone for reading JetsonHacks.com, and wish everyone a super duper 2017. It’s usually fun to recap some statistics about the website, I know sometimes people are curious to see...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Web Browser on Jetson TX1
The Chromium web browser is now available from the Ubuntu repositories. It’s easy to install. Looky here: Background Most Ubuntu systems, including the 32-bit versions of the Jetson Development Kits,...
View ArticleBuilding TensorFlow Update – Jetson TX1
Here’s a quick update on building TensorFlow for the NVIDIA Jetson TX1. Late last month, we looked at installing TensorFlow on the Jetson TX1. Of course, we are talking about the installTensorFlowTX1...
View ArticleRun Jetson TX1 from SD Card
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...
View ArticleRun Jetson TX1 from USB Drive
This is a the second in a series of short articles about running the Jetson TX1 from external storage. This article discusses copying the contents of the internal flash memory of a NVIDIA Jetson TX1...
View ArticleInstall Samsung SSD on NVIDIA Jetson TX1
This is the third in a series of short articles about running the Jetson TX1 from external storage. This article discusses installing a Samsung SATA SSD on a Jetson TX1, and formatting the SSD so that...
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