Machine studying is coming to the plenty, and people hordes of DIY drones and robots are about to get a complete lot smarter. On Monday at Nvidia’s GTC convention, the corporate plans to disclose the $99 Jetson Nano Developer Kit. The package is an enlargement of the corporate’s “Jetson” embedded graphics platform, and it goals to infuse your wildest maker tasks with AI that the Raspberry Pi might solely dream of. It’ll be accessible instantly on-line, by means of distributors, and at GTC itself.
The Jetson Nano Developer Kit is a standalone model of the brand new Jetson Nano AI laptop additionally introduced right now. As you’d anticipate from an Nvidia product, the GPU’s the key sauce—a 128-core beast that looms giant on the maker board. Based on the “Maxwell” GPU structure that powered the corporate’s GeForce GTX 900-series graphics playing cards, it’s able to 472 GFLOPS of FP16 efficiency, HEVC video encoding at both 4K30 or 3x 1080p30 decision, and HEVC decoding at 4K60 or 8x 1080p30—that means it could possibly monitor a number of high-definition video inputs directly and course of the photographs it sees in actual time. This is a robust GPU handy to makers. It’s tamed by an enormous black heatsink sitting atop the module.
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Finally, Nvidia developed an open-source “JetBot” AI mission that exhibits off the Jetson Nano’s capabilities. Here’s how the reviewer’s information describes the mission:
“Through the JetBot project makers and learners can get the hands-on experience needed to create innovative and fun AI projects with Nvidia Jetson Nano. The project achieves this by taking the user from the basics of motor control and camera image acquisition to high level tasks like data collection and AI training, where you teach JetBot to follow objects, avoid collisions and more.”
NvidiaThe JetBot mission for Nvidia’s Jetson Nano Dev Kit.
Sounds fairly nifty! Nvidia despatched PCWorld a evaluation unit to check out JetBot and the inferencing tutorials, but it surely arrived too late for us to check it earlier than the announcement. We’re hoping to have a extra intensive follow-up some level quickly. If you’re desirous about dabbling in deep studying tasks, the Jetson Nano Developer Kit goes on sale right now. Curious makers ought to go to the Jetson developer web site for all the data you could get began with Nvidia’s tiny, inexpensive AI board.
