
NVIDIA Jetson Nano 4GB Development Kit
NVIDIA Jetson Nano 4GB Development Kit
Even though the listing puts NVIDIA as the manufacturer, the board that arrives is built by OKDO, model C100.
After finding out that the board setup is not the same, you realise how bad of a deal this misleading product posting is.
This board has terrible documentation and the available guides don't help. Also don't expect to find help in official forums with a third party board.
Will never buy again from this store.
Contra
Come with a version of Python whose support stopped 2 years ago!!!
Which complicates everything...
Contra
This is an OKDO board and not an original NVIDIA developer kit.
The original NVIDIA jetpack image is therefore not compatible and you cannot install jetpack updates.
I have never made such a bad purchase.
Not good: Jen-Hsun Huang. He claims that the board is shrunk, washed too hot, but GPU and CPU performance are not. This gives NVIDIA a lousy image. Everything is shrunk to uselessness.
Contra
After hours of research and several images, you can get the thing to work.
The fact that you either have to buy an additional 5V power supply or remove the jumper on the board to supply the device via the MicroUSB interface is well hidden in a manual from 2020.
If you then try to update the outdated Ubuntu and Jetpack to the latest version, you will quickly realise that this is not possible.
I would have expected something like this from a 15. product from Wish. Back to sender
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Contra
I got 3 of this one for around the same price of the one above here (230 CHF) but this purchase still won the worst buy of the year award. If you want to play around a bit with outdated stuff then so be it but if you plan to use this for anything useful (other than the SD card image) e.g. build a cluster or use them in a Turing Pi board, then you'll be sweating blood throughout the days you try to make it even to boot with ethernet (headless). I do recommend CM4 modules instead.
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