Here's my idea. Mount the Jetson board (or a compatible carrier) inside your Dell case using 3D-printed mounts, extra PSU power, and USB/Ethernet passthrough. People do this for custom mini PCs. See below.
(Examples of the Jetson board and custom mini PC cases people build around it.) Practical Ways to Run It "in a Shell" on Your Desktop This is the easier and more common approach—treat the Jetson as a networked AI companion:
Remote Desktop / Shell Access Run the Jetson headless (no monitor) and connect via SSH for terminal/shell access.
For full GUI: Set up VNC (x11vnc or RealVNC), RDP (xrdp), or NoMachine. Access it seamlessly from your Windows desktop like a virtual machine window.medium.comTools like Dataplicity or simple port forwarding make it feel integrated.
Networked AI Workloads:Run local LLMs, image gen, or vision models on the Jetson (via Ollama, TensorRT, etc.).
Call it from your main PC using APIs, Python scripts, or tools like ssh remote execution.
Great for offloading heavy AI tasks while your Dell handles everyday work.
Other Integration Ideas:USB/Ethernet bridging for direct communication.
Docker or containerized services on the Jetson exposed to your desktop.