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A while back we wanted a way of hosting images taken at our various AWS Machine Learning Community events and while there are many image hosting options available I figured that since we are an AWS-focused community why not try to build an entirely serverless image gallery using the AWS tech stack? The requirements were…

So during my downtime (now officially cancer-free btw!) I’ve gotten more involved with the project to build a functional local training environment and have also taken on a role as a GitHub maintainer for various AWS ML community projects. We’ve had local training on the 2019 setup for some time now largely thanks to the…

So I didn’t make it along to speak at the DeepRacer meetup as I was feeling pretty awful. Awful enough that I ended up sending myself off to A&E on Thursday morning. Unfortunately later that day I was diagnosed with a bowel tumour which had completely blocked everything up and had to have emergency surgery…

My submission for a talk at re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas has been accepted! Come find me in “The Quad” at the Aria hotel at 1:30pm on Wednesday to hear my talk, From simulator to reality: how to design and test your model for real world top performance.

I’ll be speaking at the second AWS DeepRacer London community event on 23 October at AWS’s London office. We’ll also have a physical track set up if you want to bring along your own model and we’ll have various community experts on hand to answer your questions.

The AWS DeepRacer community has successfully held it’s first event (using our Jigsaw.XYZ track). It was great to see all the familiar faces again and fun was had, although we had quite a few issues getting the cars to run properly. Current thinking is that the track wall colours actually matter quite a lot, especially…

The AWS DeepRacer car has a manual mode which is quite fun however using a phone or tablet screen as a touch input device isn’t great. Playstation 3 controllers however are cheap and wireless. After a few hours of hacking I’ve come up with a basic interface using pygame to allow wireless remote control of…

Well that was unexpected. The AWS Summits are a series of free conferences held all over the world, but more importantly they’re also where you can go to physically race an AWS DeepRacer car and earn yourself a place in the grand final in Las Vegas later in the year. While not as technically oriented…

Jigsaw.xyz is putting on our first live event and it’s going to be dedicated to AWS DeepRacer. I’ll be giving a talk digging into the details of exactly what AWS DeepRacer is, how training works and some tips and tricks. As the 2018 champions of the 2018 AWS DeepRacer league (comprising just the one event,…

While we wait for the AWS DeepRacer console and league to be launched we had a little fun in the office with the DeepRacer cars we picked up at at re:Invent. Turns out that you can remove the outer shell and replace it with a small magical unicorn. Unfortunately it seems that our unicorn isn’t…