AWS DeepRacer Community Blog

March 9, 2021March 9, 2021

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 which is available via the AWS DeepRacer service. The archived data can be found on Github and is updated every hour.

March 8, 2021March 8, 2021

AWS DeepRacer Free Student Workshop: Run faster by using your custom waypoints – Post on Linkedin

Oscar Yuen, is teaching secondary school students how to play the AWS DeepRacer in Hong Kong, he is sharing his racing skills and teaching experiences with AWS DeepRacer. Visit Linkedin to read his post on how to train using waypoints.

His reward function samples are available on his Github.

March 7, 2021March 16, 2021

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!

January 25, 2021

Community projects updates

There are a few important updates to community projects that we would like to share.

December 5, 2020December 7, 2020

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.

December 3, 2020December 5, 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.

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020

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 and where to watch the finals live!

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020

Introducing AWS DeepRacer EVO: a hands-on guide to the new kit!

Announced at re:Invent 2019, the Evo is the latest generation of the AWS DeepRacer hardware that adds stereo vision and LIDAR capabilities. Recently AWS kindly sent me an update kit to play with and so I’d thought I’d share the excitement with you all!

June 16, 2020June 16, 2020

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 Slack 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 and help the next generation of racers.

April 27, 2020April 28, 2020

Put your model on track with UNDERGROUND AWS DeepRacer League 30.04.2020-08.05.2020 and race for prizes

AWS and their partners keep looking for a way to help you race. AWS’ Jon Myer has assembled a track in his basement to offer you a chance to load your model onto the car and compete against others. All this with support from Pinnacle Tech Partners. The races will be streamed live on Twitch.