No concrete project as of now, but different ideas around semi-autonomous robots. And since they require heavy computation sometimes, I would like to offload that to the gpu if possible.
Jetson sounds interesting.
But mobile phones offer many sensors, computing power and a battery all packed together, so I might start with that. Or rather, have a smartphone for computation and remote connection and a arduino for directly controlling the servos. Or a lego mindstorm. Or both.
You’ll want a breakout board to connect it to motors, or see other projects. It’s possible to make a separate mobile platform for the sensors on the phone and have it gather info.
You’re going to want to look for NPUs and probably not GPUs. If you don’t have any idea check this out for inspiration. https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10934
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Well, I have seen and done some projects already, too. And tons of ideas for new ones, but am currently occupied with something else. What I am doing right now is looking what is out there.
So I am quite open about plattforms, but actually I would prefer simplicity. But powerful.
Something that has the potential to run WebGPU in a decent way (once that becomes stable).
You definitely want the Jetson. Great support, decent hardware, CUDA, Linux, etc. I was called a shill for being sad that ARM and Nvidia didn’t merge but I think this is the best quality device, and has tons of support.
Eh. Sometimes there are legitimate technical wins even for things that are otherwise problematic.
The TMo/Sprint merger has had issues, for instance, and I personally have been less favorable to it as time went on, but it didn't mean I wasn't excited at the time to see one more death knell for CDMA.
Also Nvidia has been pretty open-source friendly with their ARM platforms in addition to their being pretty powerful in their own right, and that doesn't have to be mutually exclusive with the concerns it would raise if they controlled the whole ecosystem of ARM platforms.
CDMA has died since LTE. Sprint worked on hybrid CDMA/GSM since they needed SIM cards.
>Also Nvidia has been pretty open-source friendly with their ARM platforms in addition to their being pretty powerful in their own right, and that doesn't have to be mutually exclusive with the concerns it would raise if they controlled the whole ecosystem of ARM platforms.
Yes that is true, surprisingly so since fuck you nvidia. Intel and AMD have x86 rights and GPUs and can make more integrated devices, while nvidia can't. Since it didn't go through, they better be good at RISC-V!
Jetson sounds interesting.
But mobile phones offer many sensors, computing power and a battery all packed together, so I might start with that. Or rather, have a smartphone for computation and remote connection and a arduino for directly controlling the servos. Or a lego mindstorm. Or both.