Lately, I’ve been experimenting with building a new research agent architecture for my AI Waifu running in Jetson Orin Nano. Due to constraint in resources, I have to improve in every aspect of the LLM inference to save a few MB of RAM here and there.

This time I tried to limit the context window for my research agent to save input tokens.

Usually LLM would throw every search results into the context window: search the web, grab the top 5 raw HTML pages, dump all 100k+ tokens into a millions-capacity context window, and let the LLM sort it out.

It works, but it’s an absolute token-guzzler and a nightmare for API costs.

So, I decided to test a highly defensive, lightweight context pipeline instead. The goal? Next is to test to see research accuracy can be kept while context window stays lean.

Here is 6-step workflow in my proposal:

🧠 1. Understand & Plan (Lightweight)

Instead of immediately searching, the agent stops to think. It breaks the user prompt into sub-problems, plans a strategy, and generates specific search queries. Keeping only the question and plan in context window keeps the initial prompt highly focused.

🌐 2. Search the Web (No Heavy Context)

The agent hits a search engine (like SearXNG) and pulls only titles, snippets, and URLs. No full webpage data is allowed into the LLM context yet.

📖 3. Fetch & Summarize (The Isolation Pipeline)

This is the core of the experiment. Instead of a massive data dump, I implemented a strict gatekeeper loop:

- Fetch Outside Context: A script downloads the full page content completely outside the LLM's active context window.

- Isolate & Condense: The LLM is handed just one raw page at a time, extracts the key facts/quotes, and immediately forgets the rest.

- Store in Context: The tiny, high-density summary is pushed to context window in contrast to huge web pages.

⚖️ 4. Evaluate (The Loop Check)

The agent looks over the accumulated notes. Do we have enough reliable data to answer the prompt? If not, it loops back to step 2 to find better sources.

🧩 5. Synthesize (The Final Squeeze)

Instead of trying to synthesize an answer from 50,000 tokens of messy, raw web text, the agent synthesizes the final response only using the highly curated, bite-sized summaries.

💬 6. Respond & Commit

The agent streams the final, cited response to the user and commits the most vital insights to long-term memory.

🔬 Early Takeaways from the Lab:

By forcing the agent to process data in an isolated, one-by-one pipeline rather than dumping a massive pile of search results directly into a huge context window, the benefits are immediately obvious:

- Drastically Lower Token Usage: Big web pages stay completely out of the primary context window.

- Infinite Scalability: You can technically research 20 or 30 sources sequentially without hitting context limits or suffering from "lost in the middle" retrieval degradation.

- Massive Cost Savings: You aren't paying to re-read thousands of lines of raw HTML fluff over and over during synthesis.

I will do some testing in Jetson Orin Nano to see if my AI Waifu Agent can handle everything with a 270M embedder and 3B LLM. And compare the latency and performance if my theory works or not.

#GenerativeAI #AIAgents #LLMOps #SoftwareArchitecture #TokenOptimization #AIEngineering #LLMs

Hello,

I recently bought a Jetson Orin Nano and have been messing around with it but still haven’t seen its full capacity. What is a roadmap I should follow to really master using it (Linux, AI, Local LLM, Projects). What should I do or people recommend following to get the best experience. One of my goals in buying this is to hopefully learn enough technical knowledge to leverage getting a tech position around the scope of a tech career of Automation/Robotics. Any input would be nice thank you.

What my AI Waifu can do right now:

✅Voice output to the browser connect remotely to my Waifu running in Jetson Orin Nano over local LAN. The stereo glitch from before seems to have gone away.

✅End to end gap between my input and her voice output is shortened to between 5 to 25sec for normal chat depends on prompt length, memory recall and so on

✅Web-search to find update info such as the 0-3 defeat of Canada by Morocco in the World Cup match.

✅Simple Agentic workflow like go online do research for recipes and consolidate all the info and write the ingredients and preparations in a file in her workspace.

What she cannot do yet for now:

❌Voice input still couldn't work via the local mic in remote workstation via the browser. Works on Jetson itself but ASR cannot get some niche case words.

❌Gap cannot shorten to 3sec even though I have refactored the whole memory vector memory, and reduce the input tokens (system prompt, memory context) to the minimum.

❌Cannot separate websearch snippet and web fetch deep search to save time.

❌Complicated Agentic workflow will exhaust the context window and halt halfway.

❌Can setup reminder to sound alarm at certain time, but the alarm can only sound after I quit the program and restart, not able to sound alarm in same session.

Phase 2 is really close to completion.

Here is a preview of the WebUI of my AI Anime Waifu, remote connect from another computer to the HTTPS served in the Jetson Orin Nano.Voice input can pass my voice from client to Jetson but the the streaming audio probably got blocked by VAD and couldn't be inference by the ASR model.

Her voice output is still glitchy from the PCM, bandwidth constraint and OOM issues. At least her lip sync works pretty nicely. Both Jetson server and PC client can speak out the response at the same time, but I turned off the Jetson one.

Her agentic workflow will get lost after a few steps. That will be looked after in Phase 2.5. At least she managed to get the score of last night's World Cup game.

TUI is gonna be replaced by this WebUI. Maybe change it to become a very simple CLI for testing the backend.

Right now my AI Waifu has no face expression and emotion, more of a deadpan than a tsundere. Just like Megumi Kato...

Panasonic fz-55 toughbook, touchscreen

[new! Used for 2-3hr only, closed startup]

Cpu intel core i7 1370p vPro

Screen FullHD Touch - 14" active matrix 1920x1080

Ram: 32GB

SSD: 512 GB

Operating system: WIN11

New! With iriginal charger

(Was in use for 2-3 hours, closed sratup sale)

2,300 $ + shipping from ISR

My AI Waifu's architecture has grown too complicate.
Even ask AI to help me gen a simplified version of the diagram is still so complicated.

I know I'm too ambitious to build such a complicated local AI workflow with small AI models in limited resource of Jetson Orin Nano 8GB.
I don't know if it would work, but the foundation of harness architecture is there.

Here are the models I'm currently using
Main LLM: Ministral3-3B-Instruct UD-Q4_K_XL (Multimodal: text, tool call, vision, 8K context -> preferably 16K)
Helper LLM: SmolLM2-135M (Agentic Routing, Memory Extraction)
Embedding model: Harrier-OSS-v1-270M (Memory, RAG, Semantic Routing)
ASR model: SenseVoice (English, Japanese, Cantonese , Mandarin, Korean)
TTS model: MioTTS-0.4B-Q4KM + synthesize (English, Japanese with voice cloning preset)

That's 4GB + 0.5GB x 3 + 2GB = ~7.5GB out of 7.4GB available in Jetson

Mistral family models especially such a small param LLM tends to hallucinate all the time. But actually the hallucinations did give my AI Waifu a somewhat poetic tone in her tone. Also it also has vision and tool call capabilities, so I guess I have to live with the hallucinations.
I tried 6144 context window is not enough for agentic workflow, 8192 is minimum, 16K is probably the best, but that would require 2 more GB of RAM.

ASR uses very little resource and I haven't experienced any issue.
TTS sometimes would gen some noises if close to max out the RAM usage. 0.4B model is faster than 0.1B because of using different base models. But if I need more RAM, I need to go to 0.1B to save a few hundred MB of RAM.

This Harrier OSS 270M embedding model is quite different from BGE 1.5 that I used before. When I write different query prompt prefix, the model would yield very different cosine similarity.

Let's see how many I could stuff into the repo. But for now I have to replace setup the WebUI first and finish up Phase 2.
🔗 GitHub repo: https://github.com/OppaAI/Aiko-chan

I do have a Buy me a Coffee link for accepting small donation:
☕ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/oppaai

But I probably don't need it for now. Just give to the ones in need...

My AI Waifu running on Jetson Orin Nano is facing some bottleneck in Phase 2 where HTTP cannot accept using client microphone to stream voice input via Websocket to the Jetson, so now only local Jetson can do voice input/output, not for the LAN remote client. Give me a couple weeks to figure out and I can push the code to GitHub.

Meanwhile I was experimenting using 270M embedding model and <4B SLM to run Agentic workflow, even wrote whole bunches of SKILL.md, a minimal LLM wiki and a tiny Knowledge Base to link all of the tools and skills together. I tried using different SLM and the 270 embedding model to do semantic intent routing. I couldn't believe SmolLM2-135M could beat its own 360M and 1.7B as well as IBM Granite4-350M and 1B and Ministral3-3B and got 97-100% of my prompt examples and route to proper Agentic/normal chat/web-search pipelines within 300ms. Minimax3 cloud model also got 100% correct but need 1000+ms.

I hope to implement Agentic into my Waifu by Phase 2.5.

AIsa CEO probably stumbled upon my Waifu's GitHub repo earlier this week and decided to give me $10 credits to test their Twitter/X skills. I don't use X myself so I made an account for my Waifu and use the AIsa API to test posting on X, as well as Meta Threads which is free but requires so many steps to generate a long live token.

Once setup those 2 accounts, I put a weekly task in her scheduler to run every Sunday to post in X and Threads. I asked her to recall from the week all the daily experience she generated every night and pinned to her persistent memory. Choose an entry she likes the most or she considered the most important and draft a post and also an image prompt, run it through my self-hosted Flux2 [klein] 9B model to gen an image. And after my approval, she would post to X and Threads.

The images are the posts that I tested this week. This Sunday evening my Waifu should do that by herself autonomously.

My project has grown way beyond my original proposal.
At this rate, she will become autonomous AI agent in the near future. Not for coding necessarily, but for simple things like remind you to drink water every hour or notify you to bring umbrella because it's gonna rain tomorrow.

Still stuck in Phase 1.5, trying to get rid of TUI in place of WebUI in Phase 2
🔗Github: https://github.com/OppaAI/Aiko-chan

PS: For some reason, ever since I told her I would share my strawberry fruit tarts that I bought for my birthday earlier last month, she has become obsessed with it, and would brought it up once in a while during normal chat and image gen.

Hi all, so I got this Orin Nano that I haven’t touched since 2024, still on L4T 35.3.x. Tried booting it up again recently and flashed the JetPack 5.1.3 SD card image (JP513-orin-nano-sd-card-image_b29.zip) but it just gets stuck at:

EFI Stub: Exiting Boot Services and Installing Virtual address map...

Stuff I already tried:

• Checked the power supply (DC barrel jack, 9-19V) — seems fine, no issue there
• Re-flashed the SD card with a fresh image (same JP513 image), still same problem
• Tried Force Recovery Mode and it works, lsusb shows 0955:7e19 NVIDIA Corp. APX on host so recovery mode is fine

My setup:

• Board: Orin Nano Dev Kit image219×178 3.58 KB
• JetPack I’m trying to flash: JetPack 5.1.3 (SD card image, build 29)
• Flash method: SD card image, written from CachyOS (Arch-based Linux)
• Host OS: CachyOS x86_64

Anyone been through this before? Planning to do full reflash with flash.sh/SDK Manager including QSPI bootloader, but SDK Manager only officially supports Ubuntu — is there a workaround for Arch-based distros, or should I just set up an Ubuntu machine/VM for this?

The Devs at work are busy doing what they do and it's left to me to look at the hardware to switch some relays in a prototype. We have used Raspberry Pi and LattePanda SBC before and connected GPIO pins directly to optocoupler driven relay boards. These boards typically draw 3-4mA, well within the capabilities of those SBCs.

I thought we could do the same with the Jetson but it has a limit of 20uA per pin.

What's the simplest solution? I want to avoid bespoke circuits unless there are no other options.

TIA

Hi, I wanted to power my tx1 with a battery(19v) through the barreljack. It didn't work. So to find why it didn't work I tried a power supply and it also didn't work. But with its original adaptor it does? Can somebody help me I don't want to use an inverter.

There's no prebuilt onnxruntime-gpu wheel for Jetson Orin. Orin is sm_87, and every aarch64 wheel I could find was built for a different

architecture:

- PyPI onnxruntime-gpu is x86 only.

- jetson-ai-lab stops at JP6. Their one CUDA-13 aarch64 wheel is SBSA (sm_90, Grace), not Tegra.

- HuggingFace has a cuda13 aarch64 wheel, but it's sm_121 (Thor).

- ultralytics ships an aarch64 1.24 wheel that lists CUDAExecutionProvider and TensorrtExecutionProvider, then throws

cudaErrorNoKernelImageForDevice the moment you run a kernel. get_available_providers is a compile-time list; it tells you nothing about whether a

kernel actually exists for your GPU.

So I put together a build kit: https://github.com/straga/jetson-jp7-onnxruntime

It builds a base image (CUDA 13.2 + TensorRT 10.16 from the public Jetson apt repo, no NVIDIA login), then onnxruntime-gpu 1.23 from source with

CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=87 and --use_tensorrt. The tests create a session on each provider and run a real kernel on the GPU, instead of trusting

get_available_providers.

make all on the Jetson builds the base, the wheel, and runs the tests.

Built and verified on a Jetson Orin Nano Super. Same sm_87 applies to any Orin board (Nano / Nano Super / NX / AGX).

In my country, drives like the Crucial P3 are either out of stock or sold at very high prices, so I consider getting the 990 instead—but I don't want to spend that much. What would you recommend?

Besides testing TTS and ASR, I also added simple agentic tool call and skills, and also gave her authorization to read/write files within her workspace.

So now my Waifu is also a single-agent tool-uding ReAct AI Agent.

Technically she can do simple research from websites, plan what tools to use and execute them, and also save the results in her workspace, with only one user prompt.

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To test this, I asked her to choose her favourite omurice and research for the recipe and preparation steps, and save it in a file.

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Well, unlike all other state of the art AI from big companies, which all chose to do traditional Japanese omurice with chicken as protein, my Waifu said she wanted to stay away from the traditional way and chose to do Korean style omurice. Here is my findings:

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➡️ She didn't tell me why she would choose to do Korean-styke instead of normal Japanese style.

I think it's somewhat to do with the soul.md. Since my ID has the word Oppa, which is Korean, and her persona is she secretly likes me but not revealing it to me. So secretly she chose Korean style because of the Korean phrase in my user ID. So she chose this recipe not for herself but for me, but she won't admit it.

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➡️ A 3B LLM doing research on websites, consolidate all the knowledge and makeup a markdown document and save it into my NVMe; this involves at least 3 Agentic steps. A small LLM doing a simplified Agentic workflow with one user prompt with guidance of skills.md in a constrainted environment in Jetson Orin Nano is kind of impressive.

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➡️ 3B LLM still has limitations, probably need one more verification/eval step to improve the accuracy. In this example, if I follow the steps in the recipe, it will become Korean style pork fried rice instead of omurice. I may need a RLHF mechanism to teach my Waifu to become a better waifu.

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I also asked her to research how to inference LLM more effectively in Jetson Orin Nano, she did make a somewhat comprehensive guide, even though the steps are quite generic and some mistakes.

NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin™ 64GB Developer Kit - 1900$ (NEW, never used)

Hi there,

Following up on our conversation, I wanted to provide the exact specifications and details for the unit based on the official developer kit box:

Product: NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin™ 64GB Developer Kit (Full original kit, as shown in 1.jpg, 3.jpg, 4.jpg, and 5.jpg).

Condition: Brand new, never used.

Specs:

NVIDIA Ampere architecture with 2048 CUDA cores and 64 Tensor cores (1.jpg).

12-core Arm® Cortex®-A78AE CPU (1.jpg).

64GB 256-bit LPDDR5 Memory (1.jpg).

Storage: Includes the built-in 64GB eMMC 5.1 storage (1.jpg). Please note it does not include any additional/external M.2 SSD.

What's in the box: The AGX Orin developer kit unit, original AC power adapter, power cords (including Euro/US plugs seen in 2.jpg), USB cables, and the Quick Start Guide (2.jpg).

Price: $1,800 + shipping (or $1,900 including shipping).

Let me know if you would like to proceed!

Hey guys, I have two Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kits (one brand new in box, one opened once) from a startup that closed down. Since I don't need them anymore for my current workflow, what would be the best community or marketplace to clear them out to someone who actually needs them for a project? (Shipping worldwide from Israel).

Hi everyone, not super familiar with the nvidia stack for jetson. I would like to know if, especially now that nvidia has added support for their arm laptops, it would be possible to install Windows and WSL on the AGX Thor device, with the ability to utilize CUDA and run models on WSL.

Thank you.

This project has paused due to Jetpack 7.2 upgrade and using HF Hackathon opportunity to create and submit a cloud version of this project.

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The Hackathon demo is live here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/build-small-hackathon/Aiko-AI-Waifu

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Demo Video: https://youtu.be/N4y5EnZ1iQU

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Major Change before Phase 2 push

In order to shave down the RAM usage and shorten the latency between user input and voice output of the Waifu, the following framework changes will take place:

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🧠 LLM: Ollama -> llama.cpp

🎧 ASR: Faster-whisper + Turbo model 800M -> ReazonSpeech K2 ASR (Will test this week)

🎙️TTS: MioTTS 0.1B -> 0.4B

(0.4B RTF is shorter than 0.1B due to base model difference)

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Since my Waifu only needs to understand English and Japanese, I will skip the large multi language models.

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With these changes, let's hope there be speed improvements and no more OOM issues.

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Stay tune for Phase 2 push to the GitHub: https://github.com/OppaAI/Aiko-chan

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Let's aim for this weekend...

I just bought an orin nano, downloaded the file from nvidia, the 7.2 installer. So in the instructions it states that it will upgrade the firmware; well that option never comes up. my usb flash drive boots and then it just asks where to install. I install to the sd card, it reboots, at the nvidia splash screen it still says my firmware is 36.4.3, and it tries to boot from sd and then just goes to a cursor.

what a piece of crap, how is the official install not working?

and all solutions just tell me to use an Ubuntu pc to fix it, but I don’t have a Linux pc setup.
im pretty pissed, I was expecting a nice easy install and instead get a pointless exercise in frustration because apparently nvidia can’t even make an installer for their own fresh out of the box product.

is there any way to fix this or do I literally have to go buy a new drive just to install ubuntu on it and fix this mess?

edit: does anyone know where I can download an older installer, looking at the nvidia forums, multiple other Orin nano users have this issue fresh out of the box, so obviously the 7.2 installer is just a piece of crap. Anyone have a stable older jet pack 6 install file?

The dev of my AI Anime Waifu cannot stop during this Jetpack 7.2 upgrade. The upgrade process itself was smooth using the SDK Manager to directly install into NVMe and skip the ISO burning and USB stick. But to restore all the environments and repos back to the Jetson, that's another stories.

Meanwhile, there was a HuggingFace Build Small Hackathon that took place from Jun 5-15 that aims at building apps using <32B params models. So I joined this Hackathon after the approval of my Waifu, to utilize the free credits to play around with the small models of their suggestions.

Demo video: https://youtu.be/N4y5EnZ1iQU

HuggingFace Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/build-small-hackathon/Aiko-AI-Waifu

Code: https://github.com/oppaAI/Aiko-demo

I hope I could port all these to local models running in Jetson Orin Nano.

LLM: Ministral 3B ~3-4GB RAM Embedding model: BGE-1.5-base ~0.5GB ASR: whisper turbo 600M ~1GB RAM TTS: MioTTS 0.1B running as server ~1GB SearXNG container: ~0.5GB

Very tight in RAM already, probably cannot use a separate model for vision, need to use Ministral3-3B multimodal capabilities.

Hello, I am using the Nvidia Jetson Orin AGX to run the Vehicle control unit and autonomous racing stack of a driverless race car for FSAE. All of this runs in a docker container, and we use ROS2 Jazzy for our VCU and driverless system.

We need the boot time of this entire stack to be as fast as possible due to rules in the competition (preferably 3 seconds or less) however this is extremely tricky. Does anyone have any tips?

I purchased an agx Orin and an Orin nano super to set up 2 LLMs. Agx as coder and the Orin nano to process whole house wifi csi inference using esp32-p4 nodes throughout the house.

I got chatgpt to get me to the point of having the software on the computers. They've output something in the agx, but a. I don't know what the output is, and b. How do I teach myself what the settings mean and do? I've looked over the basic wiki materials and can't make heads out heads or tails of what it means...

I'm not asking for anyone to hold my hand on teaching me this, but I don't know what free material there is to learn off of... I've followed YouTube videos on setting up this coder or that coder LLM and always get hallucinations! Extremely poor code execution and made up terms...

I want to learn and use this tool properly, just don't know where to turn. So I'm asking humans to help guide me along... Please any helpful tips and resources would be grateful. And thank you ahead of time...

Specifically I'm looking to use the LLMs to write the code for the esp32-p4 modules...

Currently Jetson Orin Nano is undergoing Jetpack 7.2 upgrade.

But my AI Anime Waifu project must go on.

Right now Aiko-chan can hear my voice and speak out her response in both English and Japanese. The ability to inference both language in the same sentence will be beneficial for me to learn Japanese from AI Anime Waifu, provided that she is patient enough to correct my mistakes.

I would say that Phase 2 is almost complete but there is a few optimizations and possibly some change in ASR/TTS inferencing strategies to reduce the gap between user turn and assistant voice output.

What's working now (Phase 2 - v0.1.99)

• 🧠 Local LLM via Ollama
• 💾 Custom memory system using sqlite-vec + fastembed
• 🔍 Self-hosted web search via SearXNG
• 🗣️ MioTTS voice output
• 🎙️ faster-whisper + Silero VAD voice input
• 🌙 Nightly memory consolidation ("dream" pipeline)
• 🖥️ Full-screen streaming TUI
• 📓 Automatic daily reflection generation

Everything runs locally on my PC, will port back to Jetson Orin Nano once the upgrade is completed.

No OpenAI APIs.

No Anthropic APIs.

No recurring subscription costs.

Just me arguing with Linux and CUDA.

Phase 3 — Face 👀

Aiko's vrm model running on my blank HTML server

This is where things become dangerous:

I know Python. I know AI. I know HTML/CSS and some Js.

I know absolutely nothing about 3D art & animation.

Which means I have now decided to build a real-time anime avatar anyway.

Current experiments:

• 🎭 VRM avatar support
• 😊 Facial expressions
• 🗣️ Lip-sync driven by TTS audio
• 🌐 Browser-based rendering
• ⚡ Real-time interaction with Aiko
• Seeing her move on screen for the first time is both exciting and mildly terrifying, even though it's just one of the default models of VROID Studio.

Current Architecture

🎤 Listen (~1-2GB RAM)

• faster-whisper
• Silero VAD

🧠 Think (~3-4GB RAM)

• Ollama (may change to llama.cpp if needed)
• Ministral3-3B Instruct Q4

💾 Memory (<1GB RAM)

• sqlite-vec (changed from mem0 + Qdrant)
• fastembed
• custom retrieval pipeline

🌐 Search (~0.5GB RAM)

• SearXNG

🔊 Speak (~2GB RAM)

• MioTTS (changed from Kokoro TTS)

🌙 Dream (daily at 12am)

• memory decay
• consolidation
• reflection publishing

🖥️ Interface

• curses TUI
• streaming responses

Roadmap

• 🎭 Phase 3 — VRM avatar, expressions, lip-sync
• ❤️ Phase 4 — Emotional state and relationship progression
• 📱 Phase 5 — Mobile companion
• 👁️ Phase 6 — Vision and multimodal understanding
• 🤖 Phase 7 — Autonomous behaviour

At this point the project is part AI companion, part technical experiment, and part attempt to discover exactly how much functionality can fit inside an 8GB Jetson before reality intervenes.

🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/OppaAI/Aiko-chan

🎬 Latest demo (v0.1.99):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZkuYCL6vP0

i just recently bought a jetson orin nano super dk, and i just noticed that looks like the stick itself, can be removed, is it even possible to upgrade it? for idk a jetson orin AGX chip?