What I’m going to show you today is how to use the Jetson Nano as the brains of a rover. If you already have an Arduino powered rover/bot, you can easily add the Jetson Nano as a high-level decision making circuit that can make decisions off of input like Images, Video, Sound basically any sensor data.
The first part of the code consists of an Arduino sketch that shows how to use a simple binary communication protocol that can send and receive integers, floating points etc. The Arduino here acts as a client. Communication.hdefines the interface for sending sensor data.
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