Tony is a Geek

 https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-orin/nano-super-developer-kit/ I saw one of these about a year ago & I was going to order one, they were expensive and mostly out of stock, so I thought I would wait a while. Then there was a shortage, so I thought I would wait a bit longer. Alas, time has zoomed by and now I have the opportunity to purchase one.  I did however purchase it from Amazon, it did have to come from the US, so it was delayed by a couple of weeks, however import tax was included in the price so it wasn't much more on the price.  Talking of which, basically £250 - which is amazing. What does this device offer? What is the first thing to do once unpackaged?  Well, it is a pretty basic box, the device on one side and the power cables the other. No instructions, nothing.  PERFECT! :-) Geeks only allowed. So, time to click the [Download SDK] button, that redirects you to the good old JetPack page (I remember doing...

  https://ollama.com/library/gemma3 ollama pull gemma3:270m compare the size to the other versions: here's a news article doing an analysis for you - saves me repeating it:  https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/little_llm_on_the_ram/ 270million parameters, but only taking up 550MB of RAM.  That is what makes this special.  On very low compute devices, Raspberry Pi, Jetson, low-spec laptops, this model can perform VERY well. I hear you say, "yes, but it might be performant and small, but it won't be able to do what I want it to do" Well, maybe you should go take a look at this article:  https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/core/huggingface_text_full_finetune What is that? it's the instructions on how to enhance / extend the model to be specifically knowledgeable about YOUR specific SME subject.   Yup, you can get all the specific knowledge that you want to train the model on & here are the instructions on how to then teach this tiny little pocket-rock...

 Wow! just wow. I was using this sort of kit about 2 years ago for the nice sum of around £2,500 You can now get it between £350-£650 (depending on where you buy it from), or $249 (yeah, I'll let you work out that conversation rate chaos?!?!) What does it do? It is a wow! show-stopper.  CHECK IT OUT CHECK IT OUT MORE HERE: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-orin/nano-super-developer-kit/ Okay, I'll stop teasing & show you the SPECs: YES, you read that right, 1024 CUDA cores.... 1024.... in something that small.  Now, it starts to become something useful?!?! CHECK OUT the official 1-pager of info: https://nvdam.widen.net/s/zkfqjmtds2/jetson-orin-datasheet-nano-developer-kit-3575392-r2 I'd love to order one.  However, life unfortunately gets in the way, so I have to stick with paying bills first & such innovative advancements have to pass me by (for now). OKAY, so after checking this out - a DIRECT sale, I was a little surp...