NVIDIA® Jetson Orin™ Nano devkit… not so nano

NVIDIA® released the third Jetson devkit of the series Orin. After AGX Orin, Orin NX here comes the NVIDIA® Jetson Orin NANO developer kit, the entry-level board of the latest generation of NVIDIA® Jetson embedded devices. If you come from NVIDIA® Jetson Nano™, you must forget everything regarding this embedded…

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Thermal Images on Jetson™ Nano with FLIR Lepton3

In the far 2017, I participated (and won) in a challenge promoted by FLIR and the BeagleBoard.org Foundation. I used a FLIR Lepton3 module and a BeagleBone Blue to detect and track people using their temperature. In this article, I will explain how to use the same Lepton3 module with…

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Another amazing Nvidia Jetson board is here: Xavier NX

In this strange period of COVID19, when you can’t meet your friends, relatives and work colleagues, when you can’t attend any kind of fairs and conferences, it’s nice to read such great news. Today [14th May] the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, hyeld a virtual keynote for the virtual GTC2020…

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Jetson Xavier… and Nvidia continues to surprise the world

Nvidia Xavier module

Two days ago at Computex Nvidia annunced the new Jetson Xavier, a new embedded board with the robotics as target. It’s been a little more than one year since Nvidia released the amazing Jetson TX2. We were talking about the incredible calculation power available for the first time on an…

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Embedded Computer Vision Real Time? Nvidia Jetson TX2 + VisionWorks toolkit

CSI Camera module

The Computer Vision is a really computational power requesting task, if you work with computer vision you know that to reach very high frame rates you need to maximize the parallelism of the algorithms and you know that massive parallelism is reachable only moving elaborations to GPUs. The embedded massive…

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First boot of the Nvidia Jetson TX2 and CUDA test

The 7th march Nvidia launched the new Jetson TX2. In the launch post I described the differences with the previous Jetson and how the new Jetson TX2 can double the performances of the TX1. Now it’s time to see how it really works, so let’s stop the written words and let’s…

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The dawn of the new Jetson… Nvidia Jetson TX2 has come

Nvidia Jetson TX2

Well, it’s been a while since I published the latest news about MyzharBot project, what’s better than starting again from a really big news? Nvidia has presented the new Jetson module, Nvidia Jetson TX2 and it’s ready to get on board of MyzharBot

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[Video] Testing the new uNavSB H-Bridge board for uNav Motor Controller

http://myzharbot.robot-home.it/blog/build-myzharbot-get-started/component-list/

The motors that move MyzharBot are really powerful, really too much powerful for the motor drivers mounted on the little uBridge shield used originally by the amazing uNav Motor Control board made by Officine Robotiche. For this reason Mauro Soligo (under a “very little” pressure) realized the new uNavSB carrier board that uses the…

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