AWS DeepRacer Evo - Fully Autonomous 1/18th Scale Race Car for Developers | With open source projects

Ordered this for my STEM class, the engine battery is not working, and there is no product help line to refer to troubleshoot.Amazon support responded and resolved the issue. All set ready ... DeepRacer

Bought it as gift for my kid. After booting, the web ui forced me to upgrade software. Here things went really south. After “upgrade” onky thing that browser showed was “something went wrong. Please restart the vehicle”. That is it. Factory reset did not help. Returning.The concept is pretty good. I just with pm would make it fully open where you can directly run anything on ros.

Had an initial battery hiccup, but AWS reached out immediately to correct the issue. Extremely responsive and flexible, and took the time to explain the issue. Once again shows Amazon going above and beyond customer service-wise.DeepRacer worked flawlessly after the fix. Great platform and easy set-up. Extremely happy with the product!

Good for learning machine learning and AI

I got the DeepRacer today finally after waiting for about one year. Cannot wait to open the box and take a look. All the parts are included as the online video describes. There is a very obvious scratch on the shell. See attached photo. Seems like the packaging needs to be improved.After charging the batteries, followed the online videos to assembly the car and connect it to WIFI successfully. But always got error "Vehicle battery not connected" when trying to calibrate it. Tried to disconnect/connect the battery and switch on/off it for a few times, but no luck. Don't know what is wrong with it.Really disappointed after waiting for such a long time and getting a not-working product.

I bought this thing as part of a challenge through work. The rest of the engineering dept wanted to explore the AWS services and this seemed to be a fun way to do it.The car is well assembled and while it is ugly, it is attractively ugly if you know what I mean.The AWS services are really reasonable if you are a business, but hyper expensive if you are playing for fun. Just doing a training cycle (which takes all evening) cost you around $5 once you run out of free time which happens quickly.I have hacked into the car and the Linix is pretty nice and the ROS engine it has is a fun way to learn these tools, but at the end of the day they are academic tools, not industrial tools for business systems. I am a professional vision engineer and a robotics engineer and have been for decades, and know what I am talking about. This is ideal for the student in either High school or College as it is a great platform to hack, mold and learn. It just isn't something that you can expect to get paid to know about unless you work for AWS. This is the reason that I give it three stars - it would be an academic 5 star product and a industrial no-star product in my book.

Pretty awesome that my 6yo son and I - neither of whom can code - could "teach a brain" in the cloud, "put it in the body" of the car and watch it move around on its in less than a week. Does anyone know where I can print different tracks out that could fit in 150 sq foot space? Have B&W printer, scotch tape, green paint, blue paint, garage floor & walls in need of a makeover. :-)

Delivery was delayed 3-4 times, and resulted in a year of waiting.The goods:- The setup is straight forward with the online manual and instruction videos.- Car has suspension and seem durable.- System runs on Ubuntu 16.04. Easy accessible and configurable.The bad:- Motion battery runs out after 10 minutes.- Camera feed is flaky. Sometime it doesn't work, and requires restart. Happens about 40%.- No software simulation. Hard to debug, and hard to understand the issue from the software standpoint.