My Journey with DeepRacer

My Journey with DeepRacer

Watching my 2½-year-old son, Greyson, play in general, pick up things, and explore the world has reminded me of how curiosity is the engine of discovery. He sees things that most of us would not, like a single tiny ant crawling across the floor. That same curiosity brought all of us to AWS DeepRacer. Some

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DeepRacer-for-Cloud v5.2.2 now available with new real-time training metrics

DeepRacer-for-Cloud v5.2.2 now available with new real-time training metrics

DeepRacer-for-Cloud provides a great way for developers to train DeepRacer models on EC2 (or other cloud compute instances, or even local servers) however many users have noticed that unlike the official AWS console it didn’t provide the kind of friendly web UI showing the current state of training. While there are some fantastic log analysis

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Announcing AWS DeepRacer League 2024. New year, new rules

Announcing AWS DeepRacer League 2024. New year, new rules

Starting 1st of March, new and seasoned racers are beginning their quest for the title of the AWS DeepRacer Champion. Will it be a completely new racer again like in 2023? Or will one of the racing legends claim their bragging rights? Read on to learn about the format and the rules

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The AWS ML community is moving to Discord

The AWS ML community is moving to Discord

After five years of hosting our community on Discord, the AWS Machine Learning Community is moving to Discord. Over the past years many people have joined and contributed to the community. People have shared countless tips & tricks and helped people with their ML and DeepRacer journey. Why did we take his decision? Discord has

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AWS DeepRacer activities in Buenos Aires (2023)

AWS DeepRacer activities in Buenos Aires (2023)

We were able to run many DeepRacer events in Buenos Aires in 2023; I thought about writing this article to describe how things were put together. The bottom line is that I wanted to gain experience in physical racing but needed a track. Many racers face the same problem, and I get asked how I

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AWS DeepRacer in Nerdearla (Buenos Aires)

AWS DeepRacer in Nerdearla (Buenos Aires)

Nerdearla is Argentina’s most significant technology conference (it might be one of the biggest in Latin America). It features 200 speakers, and it is entirely free of charge. This year, there were 27,000 online attendees, and 10,000 people attended the 3-day event in person. UADE, a private university from Buenos Aires, sponsored the race.

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AWS DeepRacer Championships 2023: The format and the prizes

AWS DeepRacer Championships 2023: The format and the prizes

Time is running out for those who want to join the championships. With just over a week left to race in the League and 13 spots left for grabs the racing is getting increasingly tense. But then it’s worth remembering that we already have 57 finalists determined, and they are already waiting for the information

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AWS DeepRacer 2023: The Community Leaderboard

AWS DeepRacer 2023: The Community Leaderboard

This season I have built a leaderboard page that allows us to openly share the results of races as they happen, present the cumulative results which aren’t available in the console and estimate who might be getting into the AWS DeepRacer Championships this year. It is available at https://drboard.breadcentric.uk, and has recently received a few

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Invitation: AWS DeepRacer Community Meetup London 17.10.2023

Invitation: AWS DeepRacer Community Meetup London 17.10.2023

We would like to invite you to another AWS DeepRacer Meetup in London, taking place on Tuesday 17.02.2023 at 18:00. Go to Meetup.com to sign up. You have to sign up two days in advance (by Sunday) due to security requirements of the venue, otherwise there is no guarantee you will be allowed in. Location:

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South Hills High School Student, Nicole Lee, Wins $40,000 Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship and Internship: A DeepRacer Success Story

South Hills High School Student, Nicole Lee, Wins $40,000 Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship and Internship: A DeepRacer Success Story

We are thrilled to announce that Nicole Lee, an active member of the AWS DeepRacer Student League, has won the prestigious $40,000 Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship and Internship! Nicole has been an enthusiastic participant in the AWS DeepRacer program since her sophomore year in high school. During her time in the program, she has developed

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Invitation: AWS DeepRacer Meetup with JPMC, London, 15 May 2023

Invitation: AWS DeepRacer Meetup with JPMC, London, 15 May 2023

On behalf of the wonderful racing group at JPMorgan Chase I would like to invite you to a DeepRacer meetup. When: Monday, 15th of May 2023 at 6:00 pm BST Where: JPMorgan Chase 60 Victoria Embankment, EC4Y 0JP, The Great Hall · London Signups: Go to meetup.com to sign up The event will include: networking

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Building a DeepRacer Track

Building a DeepRacer Track

Building a DeepRacer track can be a fun and rewarding experience. Here are some things to consider before getting started: Figure out the amount of space that you have. Figure out how often you are going to race. Figure out if you want to build a DeepRacer signature track (tracks in the console). Consider building

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[PL] Dołącz do ligi AWS DeepRacer 2023

[PL] Dołącz do ligi AWS DeepRacer 2023

Ciężko uwierzyć, że to już trzy miesiące od zakończenia sezonu 2022, a tu już zaczął się kolejny, inny od wszystkich dotychczasowych. W lutym braliśmy udział w wyścigu Innovate Preseason, którego zwycięzca wygrał czwarty bilet do Mistrzostw AWS DeepRacer 2023. A to nie jedyny dodatkowy wyścig w tym roku (więcej o tym w artykule). Czytaj dalej

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[CN] 加入AWS Deepracer 2023 全球联赛

[CN] 加入AWS Deepracer 2023 全球联赛

2022赛季已经正式离开了我们,现在是时候让我们期待2023联赛的开始 (时间将会在三月初 ). 在即将来临的2023赛季将会带来一些和2021/2022赛季不一样的改变。 在刚刚结束的二月份 Innovate Preseason比赛当中冠军优胜者已经获得了第四张今年拉斯维加斯re:Invent 2023总决赛的门票了。这一场并不是2023年唯一的专业比赛,下面我们将会带来更多详细的信息。 那么现在就让我们看看今年将会有什么样的比赛。

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Join the AWS DeepRacer League 2023

Join the AWS DeepRacer League 2023

With the 2022 season truly behind us, it’s time to look ahead at the start of the 2023 league (beginning start of March). Also bringing quite a few changes to what we’ve seen from 2021/2022. The February Innovate Preseason race has finished and the winner is receiving the 4th ticket to Las Vegas for the

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DBro’s local training notes

In his blog post, Darren Broderick (DBro) has shared the AWS DeepRacer local training and troubleshooting notes he relies on when setting up his training. You can find it here: https://darren-broderick.medium.com/aws-deepracer-local-training-drfc-fd550f619410

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Join the AWS DeepRacer League 2023 for the Innovate Preseason Race

Join the AWS DeepRacer League 2023 for the Innovate Preseason Race

While it feels like the 2022 season finished last week, it’s already time for the next one. Join the Innovate Preseason Race starting on the 1st of February: the competition will be fierce, but the prize is sure worth the effort: the winner will punch the next ticket to Las Vegas! And on the 22nd

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AWS DeepRacer 2022 Championships: Day one summary

AWS DeepRacer 2022 Championships: Day one summary

We’ve done it! After two years of remote training we have returned to Las Vegas to race in person, on track. Here’s a quick summary of what happened yesterday, how you can join today and what predictions there are for the end results.

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AWS DeepRacer 2022 Championship finalists

AWS DeepRacer 2022 Championship finalists

It is time to meet the ones who will be racing in the championships. To some the result may have come easily, others had to spend hours/days (well, nights) of thinking, learning and trying over and over again. All have however found a way to punch a ticket and will meet at the MGM Grand

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AWS DeepRacer at re:Invent 2022: The What, The Where and The When

AWS DeepRacer at re:Invent 2022: The What, The Where and The When

It’s only two weeks to AWS re:Invent, the best place to be with a head in the cloud. You’ll get to learn all the new releases, do the workshops, gather some serious amount of swag and most of all, DeepRacer. We’re back to racing in person, we’ve got the workshops, we’ve got ideas to share.

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Learning: Train DeepRacer models on EC2 Spot instances

Learning: Train DeepRacer models on EC2 Spot instances

Matias Kreder has shared a blog post on how to use EC2 Spot instances to train your model. Matias is a CTO at selehann.com, an AWS Community Builder and an AWS DeepRacer Pro Racer. You’ll find it here: https://dev.to/mkreder/train-deepracer-models-on-ec2-spot-instances-4ndm

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AWS DeepRacer League 2022 Update #1

AWS DeepRacer League 2022 Update #1

March ended with the first races of the League and some exciting results. Let’s see who qualified into the finale and who will need to try harder in April. Also, let’s check out who will join the Pro league. We also have the first EMEA Summit winner from Brussels!

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Announcing: AWS DeepRacer League 2022 on-line and in person

Announcing: AWS DeepRacer League 2022 on-line and in person

Join thousands of contestants on the learning path and race for the knowledge, prizes, glory and friends in the exciting Reinforcement Learning powered tournament. I’m Tomasz Ptak, a senior software engineer at Duco, an AWS Machine Learning Hero, a DeepRacer racer (named Breadcentric), a hobbyist baker and a leader of the AWS Machine Learning Community

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[Hands-on] Who won what in the AWS DeepRacer League 2021?

[Hands-on] Who won what in the AWS DeepRacer League 2021?

One of the greatest mysteries of this season was who got which prizes in races. The questions of who qualifies where, who gets what prize have been popping up regularly in the Community Discord channels. Learn how I used SageMaker Notebook, Python and Pandas to determine the winners by reading data from Jochem Lugtenburg’s deepracer-race-data

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AWS DeepRacer League Update #28 September Finale Special

AWS DeepRacer League Update #28 September Finale Special

This is one of the two remaining finale races this season. We’ve got a few rookies joining the race and challenge some of the regulars looking to secure their spots in the championships. We are awaiting details about what to expect during the championships (apart from it being all-virtual again). It’s a terrible pity that

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Invitation: NeurIPS 2021 AWS DeepRacer Challenge

Invitation: NeurIPS 2021 AWS DeepRacer Challenge

I would like to invite you all to a DeepRacer Challenge with exciting prizes and interesting challenges (and a novel AWS DeepRacer training stack!). Round 1 is already live but there’s time until October 31st to participate. Read on for details!

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AWS Classic Community race update #1 for Lars Circuit

AWS Classic Community race update #1 for Lars Circuit

Hey Fellas ! My name is Vinamra and I am hosting this community race for the very first time. I got an exposure to AWS Deepracer through Udacity’s AWS Machine Learning Scholarship and now I am hooked to it. Really, it is very addicting and yes I have luckily cleared Open Division in my first

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[Spanish/English] ¡Preparados! ¡Listos! ¡A programar!

[Spanish/English] ¡Preparados! ¡Listos! ¡A programar!

Matias Kreder, también conocido como Matt, recibió la semana pasada un DeepRacer Evo por haber calificado entre los primeros 10 en la carrera de Abril. En el siguiente artículo se pueden ver las fotos del premio:Matias Kreder, also known as Matt, received last week his DeepRacer Evo as he qualified for the top 10 on

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AWS DeepRacer Women’s League India 2021 Grand Finale

AWS DeepRacer Women’s League India 2021 Grand Finale

AWS India have announced the DeepRacer Women’s League to promote machine learning among the students in India. Racers had pretty much two weeks to learn how to train their models and to qualify into the final. Let’s see how they are doing.

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Invitation: AWS DeepComposer Meetup 15th of April 2021

Invitation: AWS DeepComposer Meetup 15th of April 2021

Martin Paradesi is inviting you to join the AWS Machine Learning Community in NYC for a meetup on AWS DeepComposer. You’ll have a chance to learn about AWS DeepComposer and the new Chartbuster challenge starting in April. Also, there will be a discussion on strategies which can be used to generate compositions. When: 15th of

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Use gaming controllers to steer your DeepRacer

Another great resource from Cyrus Wong’s team: how to connect a PS4 pad or a steering wheel to your DeepRacer. Excellent content Siu Hong Leung! See the blog post on LinkedIn See the source code on GitHub (released under MIT) Demo:

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AWS DeepRacer Women’s League India

AWS DeepRacer Women’s League India

We would like to announce and ask you to share information about the AWS DeepRacer Women’s League India. If you’re a female student in India, join a series of events that will introduce you to DeepRacer and the world of AWS Reinforcement Learning offering and let you participate in the qualifying races which will end

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Announcing: the AWS DeepRacer Community race data repository

Announcing: the AWS DeepRacer Community race data repository

Today, we are happy to announce the release of the AWS DeepRacer Community race data repository. Over the past few years, we have seen thousands of racers compete in the AWS DeepRacer League, and together they produced tons of leaderboard submissions. During the past weeks, we’ve worked on archiving and collecting the track and leaderboard data

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AWS DeepRacer League 2021 Update #1

AWS DeepRacer League 2021 Update #1

It’s started! The first races of 2021 have begun with a wealth of new features. On behalf of the AWS Machine Learning Community I’m pleased to present the latest report from the race tracks!

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Race DeepRacer on a physical track with DeepRacer Underground

Race DeepRacer on a physical track with DeepRacer Underground

Racing the physical AWS DeepRacer is not easy to organise in 2020. Thankfully Jon Myer and David Smith have stepped in to provide the entertainment and a learning opportunity. As a re:Invent special you can win a DeepRacer Evo! Read on for the details where and when the next race will take place.

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AWS DeepRacer at re:Invent 2020

AWS DeepRacer at re:Invent 2020

Here you will find a quick summary of everything related to DeepRacer that you can do at re:Invent 2020. Hop in for all sessions, races and tournaments. There are also time-limited special offers.

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AWS DeepRacer League Finals 2020 Round 1 Schedule

AWS DeepRacer League Finals 2020 Round 1 Schedule

In 2020 AWS DeepRacer League Finals are going full virtual. There are three rounds: Group qualifiers – Object Avoidance on European Seaside Circuit track Knock-outs – Head-to-Head racing of top 32 to select the top 8 Grand Prix – Simultaneous race of top 8 racers for the fame and glory Read on for details, times

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Advanced guide to AWS DeepRacer!

I’ve been running the AWS DeepRacer Community for over a year now. In that time thousands of people have embarked on their machine learning journey, using the Discord channels as a way to close gaps in their knowledge. One of things I admire most is that many of these people then stay around in the Community

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Train a Viable Model in 45 minutes for AWS DeepRacer Beginner Challenge Virtual Community Race 2020

Train a Viable Model in 45 minutes for AWS DeepRacer Beginner Challenge Virtual Community Race 2020

AWS DeepRacer is an integrated learning system for users of all levels to learn and explore reinforcement learning and to experiment and build autonomous driving applications. This is the first AWS DeepRacer virtual community race dedicated for AWS DeepRacer beginners. This blog post serves to provide the essential comprehensive guides and resources to help the beginners to get

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AWS DeepRacer League and Console update

AWS DeepRacer League and Console update

The race is on! After an impressive 2019 season and a wait that felt like forever it’s time to dust off our DeepRacers and return to the starting line. Let’s see what goodies AWS have prepared for us in the DeepRacer 2020 league.

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Calling all DeepRacer enthusiasts in Perú!

Calling all DeepRacer enthusiasts in Perú!

Carlos Cortez, founder and leader of AWS User Group Perú is looking for those interested in learning to race together and to organise the first official AWS DeepRacer race in Perú. All details (including the form link) in his LinkedIn post below.

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Invitation: DeepRacer Challenge | Battle of the Schools, Rochester 4 Mar 2020

Invitation: DeepRacer Challenge | Battle of the Schools, Rochester 4 Mar 2020

Come to cheer for your favourite team or register to race for the glory and bragging rights. Join the event at allevents.in. See the invitation video on Linkedin: click When: Wednesday, March 04 2020 at 03:00 pm to 06:00 pm Where: Rochester Institute of Technology, 1 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, United States Organiser: EagleDream Technologies

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Invitation: Quarterly Race At Circuit Launch in Oakland, CA on 7th Mar 2020

Invitation: Quarterly Race At Circuit Launch in Oakland, CA on 7th Mar 2020

Train your models and come to race, or just come to watch. Be warned: there will be Brazilian BBQ and great time to be had. See the meetup details for the day’s programme. For racing: Sign up through racers event on meetup.com. For watching: Sign up through spectators meetup.com. Speaker: Kunal Batra, Senior Developer and

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Invitation: AWS DeepRacer Masterclass in Oakland, CA on 12th Feb 2020

Invitation: AWS DeepRacer Masterclass in Oakland, CA on 12th Feb 2020

Special Masterclass on the AWS DeepRacer for Developer Week in conjunction with Silicon Valley Robotics and Circuit Launch. Sign up on meetup.com. Speaker: Kunal Batra, Senior Developer and Technical Evangelist, AWS Deep Racer When: Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Where: Circuit Launch, 8000 Edgewater, Dr Suite #200, Oakland, CA

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Invitation: AWS DeepRacer Community Meetup London 12.02.2020

Invitation: AWS DeepRacer Community Meetup London 12.02.2020

We would like to invite you to a fourth AWS DeepRacer Meetup in London, taking place on Wednesday 12.02.2020 at 19:00. Go to Meetup.com to sign up. You have to sign up two days in advance due to security requirements of the venue, otherwise there is no guarantee you will be allowed in. Location: 60

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Binge-watch AWS DeepRacer TV 2019

If you’re looking for something to watch this weekend, look no more. Get some popcorn and watch all the action from season 2019 of AWS DeepRacer League.

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Invitation: Oklahoma City DeepRacer Event with AWS 4 Mar 2020

Invitation: Oklahoma City DeepRacer Event with AWS 4 Mar 2020

Calling all data scientists, engineers, developers, students interested in expanding their knowledge of ML, and individuals who want to learn about ML and reinforcement learning in an easy and fun way! You will have an opportunity to race against your competitors on track. Sign up on the event page. When: Wednesday, March 4 2020, 9:00

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AWS DeepRacer League 2019 Finals

AWS DeepRacer League 2019 Finals

After many races at AWS Summits and the Virtual League had completed, it was time to pick the winner of it all. The finalists have gathered in Las Vegas during AWS re:Invent 1-6 December 2019 to fight for the bragging rights (and a reward).

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Invitation: Santa Cruz Machine Learning Meetup 11 Feb 2020

Invitation: Santa Cruz Machine Learning Meetup 11 Feb 2020

If you’re in Santa Cruz on the day, don’t miss a chance to try your models on a track! Sign up on the Meetup page When: Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Where: Wrigley Building Workshop Space, 2801 Mission St · Santa Cruz, CA Remember to also join Chris’ Santa Cruz DeepRacer

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Invitation: DeepRacer Meetup New York 16 Jan 2020

Invitation: DeepRacer Meetup New York 16 Jan 2020

Open your DeepRacer year 2020 with some introduction and advanced talks, and a chance to race on a physical track. Click here to sign up on meetup.com. When: Thursday, January 16, 2020 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Where: Capital One Commercial Labs, 11 W 19th St · New York, NY Stars of the evening include

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AWS DeepRacer Community Contest #3: Endurance

AWS DeepRacer Community Contest #3: Endurance

We are excited to launch Community Contest #3: Endurance Race! In this race you have to complete three out of three laps, which will favour stable models. This race is being run via the new Community Races feature in the AWS console.

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Invitation: DeepRacer Meetup London 08.01.2020

Invitation: DeepRacer Meetup London 08.01.2020

We would like to invite you to a fourth AWS DeepRacer Meetup in London, taking place on Wednesday 08.01.2020 at 19:00. Go to Meetup.com to sign up. You have to sign up two days in advance due to security requirements of the venue, otherwise there is no guarantee you will be allowed in. Location: 60

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Invitation: Santa Cruz Machine Learning Meetup 16 Dec 2019

Invitation: Santa Cruz Machine Learning Meetup 16 Dec 2019

Join the Santa Cruz Machine Learning Meetup Group where the AWS DeepRacer Community member Chris Miller will lead a session called “Go DeepRacer Go! – A casual discussion about AWS DeepRacer”. Go to Meetup.com to sign up. Time: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Location: ProductOps, 110 Cooper St. Suite 201 ·

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Join the Santa Cruz DeepRacer Meetup Group

Join the Santa Cruz DeepRacer Meetup Group

On the heels of the AWS DeepRacer Championship Cup at AWS re:Invent, competitor Chris Miller has launched a meetup group in Santa Cruz for DeepRacer. Santa Cruz is just 30 miles from Silicon Valley with a small but growing tech scene known to locals as the SiIicon Beach.

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Organise an AWS DeepRacer event

See how you can organise an event and help us build a guide for others to benefit from. Visit the Community Knowledge Base article Organising a DeepRacer Event.

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DeepRacer Meetup London 21.11.2019

DeepRacer Meetup London 21.11.2019

This was the third meetup organised in London. With only a few days till re:Invent 2019, we had some decent racing happening and had a couple special guests.

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Invitation: AWS Toronto User Group 27 Nov 2019

Invitation: AWS Toronto User Group 27 Nov 2019

Interested in learning more about AWS DeepRacer and the journey to win the Toronto Summit race? Come join Mohammad A and Weiling Gu from Myplanet as they give a community talk at the AWS Toronto User Group. Go to Meetup.com to sign up. Time: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Location: Myplanet,

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Meet the DeepRacer 2019 League Community Finalists!

Meet the DeepRacer 2019 League Community Finalists!

November saw the final virtual race in the AWS DeepRacer 2019 League, bringing with it the conclusion of months of hard work training models and hoping they do well on the track. Now that all (but one!) of the races have completed, the qualifying finalists have been officially announced by AWS.

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Invitation: DeepRacer Meetup New York 26 Nov 2019

Invitation: DeepRacer Meetup New York 26 Nov 2019

Join the AWS DeepRacer Community at the meetup for a last chance to try your models before the re:Invent 2019. Go to Meetup.com to sign up. Time: Tuesday 11/26/2019 6:00PM – 9:00PM Location: 350 W Broadway, New York , NY It will be a great opportunity to meet other racers coming to Las Vegas for

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AWS DeepRacer Experts Boot Camp at re:Invent 2019

AWS DeepRacer Experts Boot Camp at re:Invent 2019

We’re proud to announce the AWS DeepRacer Expert Boot Camp at re:Invent 2019.This is a joint effort by AWS and the AWS DeepRacer Community and will offer unprecedented VIP access AWS DeepRacer experts who will share their knowledge and experience.

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AWS DeepRacer Community Log Analysis Challenge – Entries

AWS DeepRacer Community Log Analysis Challenge – Entries

It’s time for voting in the challenge (See the announcement). Two and a half weeks have brought us ten submissions in the AWS DeepRacer log analysis challenge. I think this is a lot. Many of the contestants submitted code to open source or public domain projects for the first time and I know how hard

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Invitation: DeepRacer Meetup London 23.10.2019

Invitation: DeepRacer Meetup London 23.10.2019

We would like to invite you to a second AWS DeepRacer Meetup in London, taking place on Wednesday 23.10.2019 at 18:30. Go to Meetup.com to sign up. Location: 60 Holborn Viaduct, Holborn, London EC1A 2FD (Note that this is different from the previous meetup) The event will include: racing introduction to DeepRacer advanced talks about

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Hello DeepRacer

Hello DeepRacer

This is how it started: on the 8th of May 2019 we had loads of fun at the AWS Summit in London. Lyndon Leggate made sure the conversation kept going and at today, 70,000 messages later it doesn’t look like we want to stop. Welcome to the AWS DeepRacer Community blog.

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