One of the coolest things about getting into microelectronics is recreating fun props and gadgets from your favorite sci-fi movies. Developer Goran Vuksic has done just that with this super impressive Star Wars pit droid replica. In the movies, this little guy can be found maintaining podracers for races held at places like Mos Espa on Tattooine. In real life, this pit droid replica is used to demonstrate the awesome creative potential of Nvidia’s Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit.
This kit debuted with a price of $499 and has enough processing power in a tiny package to handle some rather capable AI use cases. Vuksic wanted to create the droid not only for fun but also for the chance to share it with others when speaking at various tech conferences. The droid is able to interact with the world around him using image recognition thanks to the Jetson Orin Nano Dev Kit.
