This week, I tried to set up the Jetson Nano 2GB Dev Kit so we could start testing our camera and CV libraries on the board. We downloaded an OS image for this specific version onto an SD card and tried to boot up the Jetson. However, only the Nvidia logo showed up without the system booting up at all. We tried flashing other OS images onto the SD card with no luck, so we speculate that our Jetson board might either be broken or we have missed something while setting it up. We will have another team member try to look into this problem and troubleshoot it. If this doesn’t work, we would try to set up a different Jetson board. We also ordered some additional components this week, including the UWB sensors so that we could start testing them in parallel.
Our progress is slightly behind because setting up and booting the Jetson took longer than we expected, and we still don’t have it working. Despite using numerous OS installers (SDK Manager, balenaEtcher), we were still not able to get it to work. We would have to try to set up the Jetson as soon as possible in the next week and determine whether our camera is compatible with it. If not, we should try to find alternatives since the Jetson is the main processing unit of our entire project.
Next week we hope to boot up the Jetson and connect the camera to it. Hopefully we can start viewing images on the camera with the Jetson processing.