Meet George Jetson.

The NVidia Jetson Nano is a a $99 single-board computer running Linux on an ARM processor. But it has a 128-core high-performance NVidia Maxwell GPU.

A GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) started off as a way to offload the processing required for 3D games. But since then people have discovered that GPUs are faster than CPUs in a wide variety of tasks such as mining cryptocurrency, processing images, AI/Machine Learning, and large scale modeling (such as Folding@home).

Think of the Jetson as a Raspberry PI with an over-sized GPU, which makes it ideal for hobbyist robotics doing AI-powered video processing, or for machine learning at the Edge. (“the Edge” is the new name any computer that hasn’t migrated into the Cloud.)

It’s got plenty of ports to connect to the outside world, plus some General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) pins for interfacing with custom electronics.

One of our Makers brought in this Jetson Nano to show it off before doing their top-secret work on it.