Community Projects

Discover guides, tutorials, and articles contributed by the community showcasing generative AI on the Jetson platform.

Hackster
Subha, Howard, Joel, Bryan Feb 15, 2026

TORQ: VLA - Powered Autonomous Driving on Jetson

TreeHacks 2026 Edge AI track winner. Retrofits a Honda Accord with Jetson AGX Thor running a 10.5B VLA (Alpamayo R1) for high-level reasoning and openpilot for real-time control, with a rider-facing iOS app for transparent AI decision-making.

VLA Robotics Autonomous Driving
Hackster
Eric, Gavin, Ethan, Markus Feb 14, 2026

Sprout: AI-Powered Autonomous Microfarm on Jetson Orin Nano

TreeHacks 2026 Edge AI track 3rd place winner. An autonomous robotic garden powered by Jetson Orin Nano that uses on-device vision AI to identify plant species, assess health, and deliver precision watering through a custom-built gantry system.

Robotics IoT VLM
OpenClaw: Private AI Assistant on Jetson Thor Other
Ajeet Singh Raina Feb 13, 2026

OpenClaw: Private AI Assistant on Jetson Thor

Run OpenClaw (180K+ GitHub stars) as a fully local AI assistant on Jetson Thor using Docker Model Runner. Supports 8B–30B parameter models with Telegram, WhatsApp, and Discord integration — no cloud, no API costs.

LLM Agentic AI Docker
Matcha Bot - Embodied AI Hackathon 1st Place Winner Hackster
SIGRobotics UIUC Oct 26, 2025

Matcha Bot - Embodied AI Hackathon 1st Place Winner

Automating the matcha-making process using two SO-101 robotic arms, NVIDIA Jetson Thor for inference, and the GR00T N1.5 Vision Language Action model.

VLA Robotics Hackathon
GPT-OSS-20B Interactive Storyteller Hackster
Timothy Lovett Sep 23, 2025

GPT-OSS-20B Interactive Storyteller

An interactive storytelling system for children using Jetson AGX Orin with LLM, image generation, TTS, and voice control for creating dynamic stories with visuals and sound.

LLM Image Generation Speech
The Curious Frame: An Offline AI Tutor for Kids Hackster
Frederic Collonval Aug 19, 2025

The Curious Frame: An Offline AI Tutor for Kids

A screen-free educational device using Jetson Orin Nano with VLM and LLM to identify objects and explain them to kids in their language through voice.

VLM LLM Speech
GPS-Denied Drone with NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Hackster
Andrew Bernas Jun 22, 2025

GPS-Denied Drone with NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano

Autonomous drone using real-time VSLAM on Jetson Orin Nano with Isaac ROS to navigate GPS-denied environments via visual-inertial odometry and onboard mapping.

Robotics Isaac ROS ROS2
GitHub
Jen Hung Ho Sep 21, 2024

JetBot Voice-Activated Copilot with ROS2

ROS2 nodes for ASR/TTS and LLM/VLM on Jetson for controlling JetBot with customizable voice commands and advanced actions.

LLM Robotics Speech
Isaac-ROS NVBlox with Orbbec RGB-D Camera on AGX Orin Seeed
Seeed Studio Aug 15, 2024

Isaac-ROS NVBlox with Orbbec RGB-D Camera on AGX Orin

Deploy Isaac-ROS NVBlox for 3D reconstruction and obstacle mapping using an Orbbec RGB-D camera on Jetson AGX Orin with a mobile chassis for autonomous navigation.

Robotics Isaac ROS ROS2
Build Local AI RAG Agent with n8n on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Hackster
Nurgaliyev Shakhizat Aug 12, 2024

Build Local AI RAG Agent with n8n on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin

A fully local Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) AI agent running on Jetson AGX Orin using n8n workflow automation, Qwen3-4B LLM, and Telegram integration.

LLM RAG Agentic AI
Hackster
Allen Tao Apr 26, 2024

An Eye for an Item

An indoor robot with Isaac ROS that maps your home and remembers where things are using SLAM and NanoDB.

Robotics Isaac ROS ROS2
Hackster
Nurgaliyev Shakhizat Apr 26, 2024

AI-Powered Photorealistic Talking Avatar

An interactive talking avatar using ASR, TTS, LLM, and Audio2Face with NVIDIA Omniverse and Unreal Engine.

LLM Speech Image Generation
Hackster
Dimiter Kendri Apr 1, 2024

Cooking Meals with a Local AI Assistant

A multimodal, multi AI agent, fully local conversational chatbot with research capabilities via speech queries on Jetson AGX Orin.

VLM Speech Agentic AI
YouTube
Dave Niewinski Feb 8, 2024

Bringing GLaDOS to life with Robotics and AI

DIY robotics legend Dave Niewinski brings GLaDOS to life using Jetson AGX Orin, running LLMs onboard alongside object + depth tracking, and RIVA ASR/TTS with a custom-trained voice model.

LLM Robotics Speech
Seeed
Seeed Studio Feb 7, 2024

Local Voice Chatbot with Riva and LLaMA-2

An NVIDIA Riva and LLaMa-2-based LLM chatbot with voice recognition capabilities running entirely locally on NVIDIA Jetson devices.

LLM Speech IoT
AI-Powered Application for the Blind and Visually Impaired Hackster
Nurgaliyev Shakhizat Dec 13, 2023

AI-Powered Application for the Blind and Visually Impaired

A locally-hosted Blind Assistant Device running on Jetson AGX Orin 64GB for realtime image-to-speech translation using LLaVA.

VLM Speech IoT
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Nov 7, 2023

Bringing Generative AI to Life with NVIDIA Jetson

NVIDIA webinar about deploying LLMs, VLMs, ViTs, and vector databases onboard Jetson Orin for building next-generation applications.

LLM VLM RAG
JetsonHacks
JetsonHacks Sep 4, 2023

Jetson Docker Containers Tutorial

In-depth tutorial on how to use jetson-containers with text-generation-webui and stable-diffusion-webui containers in action.

LLM Docker Image Generation

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