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      children: [_jsx(_components.p, {
        children: "I recently acquired an Nvidia Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kit, so I'd love to walk you through my process of getting it up and running!"
      }), "\n", _jsx(_components.h2, {
        children: "Installing the Jetpack SDK SD Card Image"
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        children: ["To help us, Nvidia created an SD Card Image with the ", _jsx(_components.a, {
          href: "https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetpack",
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          children: "Note: I have the 2GB Developer Kit version"
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        children: ["Once the image is downloaded, we will have to flash it to the SD Card. For this we can utilize ", _jsx(_components.a, {
          href: "https://www.balena.io/etcher/",
          children: "Balena Etcher"
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      }), "\n", _jsx(_components.p, {
        children: "So boot up Balena and select your target device and OS that you just downloaded."
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          src: "./balena-etcher-nvidia-jetson.png",
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          children: "Note: this can take quite a while (~30min in my case) depending on the SD Card speed. I had some old ones lying around and they are definitely not fast"
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        children: "Configuring your Nvidia Jetson Nano (headless)"
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        children: ["Once the SD Card has been inserted and the device has been powered on with the USB-C cable, we need to connect to it. For this NVIDIA gave us ", _jsx(_components.a, {
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        children: ["\n", _jsx(_components.li, {
          children: "Screen Mode (with Display)"
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        children: "I chose for the headless mode, since it's quite annoying to setup a device this way. So let's follow these steps:"
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          children: "Plug-in your Nvidia Jetson through Micro-USB on your PC"
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          children: "Situate the COM port it is connected to (see Device Manager - for me COM4)."
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          children: ["Open Properties and go to details, then select Hardwareids and ensure the ", _jsx(_components.code, {
            children: "PID (Product ID) = 7020"
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            children: "VID (Vendor ID) is 0955"
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          children: ["Open \"PuTTY\" (", _jsx(_components.code, {
            children: "winget install PuTTY.PuTTY"
          }), " if you don't have it)"]
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          children: ["Select ", _jsx(_components.code, {
            children: "Baud Rate = 115200"
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            children: "Serial Line = COM4"
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            children: "Connection Type = Serial"
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        children: ["\n", _jsxs(_components.p, {
          children: ["Note: I provided the hostname: ", _jsx(_components.code, {
            children: "xavier-nvidia-node-1"
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          children: ["⚠ When I tried to configure the system, I received an error: ", _jsx(_components.code, {
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        children: "Configuring SSH"
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        children: ["To make our lives easier, we can apply the following command with your ", _jsx(_components.code, {
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        children: "Configuring Windows Terminal"
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        children: ["As a final configuration, I am utilizing ", _jsx(_components.code, {
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            children: ["CMD /C wt.exe wsl -d ", _jsx(_components.span, {
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              children: "\"Ubuntu-20.04\""
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              className: "token function",
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        children: "Finalization"
      }), "\n", _jsx(_components.p, {
        children: "Congratulations! You should now be able to see your NVIDIA Jetson powered up an a prompt to start working on it!"
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