I got a DeepRacer car at Reinvent, but three months later I still can't use it :(<p>Access to the DeepRacer section of the AWS console hasn't been made public, and I don't think there's any other way to program it.
It's cool that they are making a more packaged product. For a more hackable setup the original Donkey Car setup is pretty good and available now:<p><a href="http://www.donkeycar.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.donkeycar.com</a>
This is incredibly cool, and I'd love to enter, but despite having one of the races in Sydney, the actual DeepRacer hardware doesn't ship outside of the United States. Baffling from a company that has a local presence in Australia.<p>If anyone from AWS is reading, I'd love to buy one!
Is it hotlapping or a race? One is a lot easier than the other as evidenced by codemasters's valiant attempts to write AI over the last few years.<p>Also, it looks like they don't know the track beforehand but they seem to be taking absolutely bizarre lines through bends (Or is that an artifact of the model used?)
Would be nice if there was a program to get these into high schools to bootstrap a more software oriented robotics option.<p>Also a decent quality five or six DOF arm option instead of the racer might be interesting. Just dont call it DeepGripper.
Udacity SDC alum here as well and this looks awesome. I'm tempted to buy one after reading about DIYRoboCars. I've been thinking about porting openpilot to my Jetson TX2 but have been reluctant since I have no way to test it. DeepRacer seems much funner and safer. I wonder how hackable the car will be. How hard would it be to set up a remote ROS nodes rather using AWS services?
Now that nvidia has released a cheaper jetson board, I'm really itching to get it and build a small RL car. Training on the device would be out of the question though.<p>Anyone know of any successful DIY small RL cars?
It's not clear to me why deep learning is required here. It seems like some dead simple lane following code would probably work just fine. This is generally how these competitions are done.
I got a deep racer at Re:invent but I'm still waiting to get into the preview to play with it. Anyone from AWS cruising the comments here who might be able to enable it for my account?
darn. the window for $249 deepracer is over? Still mentioned as $249 'introductory discount' at <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/pricing/" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/pricing/</a> but upon clicking through to Amazon.com it's $399 now.