Edge AI hardware keeps shrinking, and the WeAct N006 is a good example: an open source carrier board that mounts the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX module onto a 90 x 60 mm footprint barely larger than a credit card. It targets robots and UAVs, where the module's GPU horsepower is used for onboard computer vision, SLAM, and increasingly for running small language and vision models locally instead of round-tripping to a server.
The board accepts the Jetson Orin NX in either 8GB or 16GB trim, both of which run up to 40W in NVIDIA's Super Mode for extra INT8 throughput at the edge. Connectivity is dense for the size: two M.2 sockets (a Key-M PCIe Gen4 x4 slot for an NVMe SSD and a Key-E PCIe Gen4 x1 slot for WiFi and Bluetooth), Gigabit Ethernet, an HDMI output, two 4-lane MIPI CSI camera inputs, and three 10 Gbps USB 3.2 ports including a Type-C OTG connector. For the robotics and drone use case, WeAct exposes CAN Bus, two UART headers, GPIO, and I2C, plus a fan header, RTC battery connector, and an auto power-on switch. Power comes in through an XT30 connector accepting 16V to 28V (24V and a 6S battery recommended), with undervoltage, overvoltage, overcurrent, and reverse-polarity protection built in.
The software side is where this stays friendly to hackers. WeAct publishes a GitHub repository with the datasheet, a getting-started tutorial, and a device-tree update script, and points users at NVIDIA JetPack 7.x flashed from an Ubuntu 24.04 host. JetPack ships the Jetson Linux BSP on top of Ubuntu with CUDA, cuDNN, and TensorRT, so the board runs a familiar aarch64 Linux stack rather than a locked-down appliance image. The whole assembly weighs 57.8 grams (2 ounces) and is rated for 0 to 40°C (32 to 104°F) operation, and as with any Jetson module it needs a thick active cooler bolted on top.
WeAct isn't alone in this niche. The Aerium Lumen board offers a near-identical 89.5 x 59 mm layout and feature set, with the main difference being onboard 4G LTE cellular that the N006 leaves off. The N006 sells for roughly $110 (€102) plus shipping and any taxes, with interface and fan extension cables included in the box, and WeAct will send a 3D model of the board on request. The Jetson Orin NX module itself is sold separately.
