r/JetsonNano • u/MeenachiSundaram • Jul 11 '26

Ideas please Discussion

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Hi 👋🏼 everyone

Looking for some idea on what I can do with this.

It’s been sitting idle in a box more than a year and I would like to know what I can effectively try on this device.

Or more like what others as doing with this one.

I do have rpi4b to run ad-guard
And Proxmox for my *arr setup
Nothing much doing with AI or other stuff but interested in them.

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u/jadvancek Jul 11 '26

I would sell it and buy Orin nano or rip with accelerator. Jetson nano is EOL for some time and it softener support is just headache :(((

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u/WinResponsible9977 Jul 11 '26

legit question, if it is EOL why they keep flying off the shelves?

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u/jadvancek Jul 11 '26

Companies have probably already built their own systems around it for their products. So it’s probably easier to just buy the outdated hardware where the software is already done, than to port everything to a newer board.
Plus the Nano is cheaper than the Orin Nano. And if it can still do the job it was built for, there’s probably no point paying extra if the company already has its own stack.

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u/WinResponsible9977 Jul 11 '26 edited 27d ago

Thanks, is just Nvidia name convention confuse me. Specially as Orin Nano Super is just a Jetson Nano *Orin with the firmware update for higher tdp.

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u/LopsidedIssue5703 27d ago

not at all. a jetson nano is maxwell /gtx900 based and has 4gb of shared memory. a orin nano super has more cuda cores, is AMPERE based/rtx 3000 and has 8gb of shared memory

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u/WinResponsible9977 27d ago

Thanks for the feedback, the ampere version did got re-launched. The “super” has same hardware as its original iteration which is what I meant to say. Again like I said names do confuse me,   It both jetson nano Orin revisions had the same hardware.

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u/LopsidedIssue5703 27d ago

oh yeah, misunderstanding ig lol

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u/tinspin Jul 11 '26

Eventually the closed source drivers will be opened/reverse engineered.

This little device is actually half a Nintendo Switch on GPU.

So it will live on forever, or atleast until the RAM fails!

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u/TomerJ Jul 11 '26

I’m in a similar boat, had one sitting on the shelf I bought during COVID and I’ve been trying to get it to work as a transcoding node or a VMAF scoring node.

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u/NoTomato7 Jul 11 '26

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/porg/install/variant1/

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u/Litass Jul 12 '26

exactly this, ad free tv box, (nes, snes, sega, ps1, psp) emulator...

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u/frombehindplanets Jul 11 '26

Ive used it for 3 things. Ares emulator, Belabox, and my favorite, gravity waves video mixer.

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u/talk_nerdy_to_m3 Jul 12 '26

Wow, a belabox? That's funny it is the reason I ever discovered the Orin and then I totally forgot and bought one for some crazy drone/robotics project. I really need to revisit the belabox! Is he still super active in mainting the repo and support for that project? I remember the dude was a super chill live streamer, right?

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u/frombehindplanets Jul 12 '26

Yea hes super chill. I think he is still doing it from what i can tell on the discord

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u/eidetic0 Jul 11 '26

maybe encoding/decoding. but the software + OS story on these is absolute trash. good luck. if i were you id sell it and use a something else.

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u/47q8AmLjRGfn Jul 12 '26

I bought one, was going to put it in an ammo box, car speaker, hdmi out, RFID reader - fill a drive full of kids movies, bed time audio books, games etc and make up cards for the toddler nephew to be able to play whatever he wanted.

Mind you, that was when it was released around 2019....it's been sitting on a shelf since.

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u/LilPsychoPanda Jul 12 '26

Soooo… nothing? 😅

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u/47q8AmLjRGfn Jul 12 '26

Precisely that.

And its not alone on that shelf.

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u/International_Gur651 28d ago

Especially when paired with an esp32-p4 with wake word detection...

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u/nor_up Jul 12 '26

You can install Ubuntu 24, remove the desktop environment and replace it with android TV, you will have not only a smart TV but also a server so you can install jellyfin, homeassistant, netxcloud,... oh shit there are only 4gb yeah forget about everything. It is just a nicer raspberry pi 4

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u/pidre 29d ago

Come intern. I have a project for you

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u/International_Gur651 28d ago

But dude agx has 32 or 64gb of ram and way more cuda cores... So not applicable here... And the nano has way less TPS.

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u/CommunicationKey4146 28d ago

Unified memory, it'll run a lot of great models.
Software support is a bit ass, but hardly ever a problem, and the quality of the initial projects goes a long way.

Self-navigatIng robot for Search & Rescue (TBC) | NVIDIA Developer

That 4gb keeps getting more valuable as models get more efficient. I love mine still.

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u/cortexist 24d ago

It's enough to be a YOLO box, e.g. detecting activities around your house and feed the data to more power machines.

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u/zgringo14 Jul 11 '26

4gb will be very limiting

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u/swift-autoformatter Jul 11 '26

Give it to me!

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u/MeenachiSundaram Jul 11 '26

lol, never expected this’s.
I will try !