NVidia Jetson Nano

Hardware & OS setup

• Download SD card image - https://developer.nvidia.com/jetson-nano-sd-card-image

• Connect SD card to Mac, Use https://www.balena.io/etcher to burn image onto SD card

• Insert SD card

• Connect wifi antennas

• Connect camera cables

• Connect Power, Reset and LED cables in correct pins if you use a case

• Set pin near the output barrel - this tells device to use 5V power supply

• Use HDMI output - Display port does not work by default on boot

• After OS installation is complete, you won’t have wifi right away - you need a restart

Global update

sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get upgrade

# Uninstall LibreOffice to save space
sudo apt remove --purge libreoffice* -y
sudo apt-get clean -y
sudo apt autoremove -y
sudo apt-get update

# Install curl
sudo apt install curl

# Docker upgrade, use own username
sudo usermod -aG docker gratheon
sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install docker.io

# Add docker-compose
export DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION=1.27.4
sudo apt-get install libhdf5-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo pip3 install docker-compose=="${DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION}"


# to not display terminal errors when playing annoying sounds
sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk3-module -y

# video cam utils
sudo apt-get install v4l-utils