Getting Started with the NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit

Over the last year or two there has been a flood of custom silicon intended to speed up machine learning on the edge. First to arrive was Intel with their Moividius-based hardware, and more recently we've seen the appearance of Google's Edge TPU-based hardware. However traditionally NVIDIA's offering in this space -- built as it was around their GPU-based hardware -- has been higher powered, and comparatively expensive. However, with everyone moving towards the edge it is perhaps unsurprising to see them introduce something a bit more affordable. So last month we saw the arrival of the Jetson Nano Module and Developer Kit. Still based around their existing GPU technology, the new Jetson Nano is therefore "upwards compatible" with the much more expensive Jetson TX and AGV Xavier boards. The Jetson Nano Developer Kit arrives in yet another unassuming box. Inside the box is the carrier board itself with the Jetson Nano module and a heatsink already fitted.