Docker on Nano¶

Note

These instructions were copied from a message on the Discord Server that were posed by user naisy on at 08/31/2023 5:48 AM. They are not supported by the DonkeyCar project (yet).

Due to the complexities of building the correct environments on the Nano, one alternative is to use the Docker container system. Although this adds some additional overhead, it means that you can download a virtual machine with all the correct software installed.

You must have a minumum of a 64GB microSD card to run Docker on the NVIDIA Nano.

Step 1: Download Docker GitHub Repo¶

In this step we will clone a repository that has some very small UNIX shell scripts.

mkdir ~/projects
cd ~/projects
git clone https://github.com/naisy/Docker
cd Docker

Step 2: Run the Permissions Shell Script¶

mkdir ~/docker
cp run-jetson-jp461-donkeycar??.sh ~/docker
cp run-jetson-jp461-gpio-permission.sh ~/docker

cd ~/docker
./run-jetson-jp461-gpio-permission.sh

Step 3: Run the Main Shell Script¶

Due to memory limitations, only one of either DonkeyCar 4.5 or DonkeyCar 5.0 should be activated.

DonkeyCar 4.5¶

./run-jetson-jp461-donkeycar45.sh

or DonkeyCar 5.0¶

./run-jetson-jp461-donkeycar50.sh

Log in to the jupyterlab terminal: PC Web browser for DonkeyCar 4.5

`` http://your_jetson_ip:8890/

for DonkeyCar 5.0 (dev3)

http://your_jetson_ip:8891/ Password: jupyterlab Launch JupyterLab Terminal ```

DonkeyCar: From this point on, it is exactly the same as a official donkeycar.

create mycar¶

donkey createcar --path ~/data/mycar45 cd ~/data/mycar45 ls