I had the opportunity to attend Amazon re:Invent 2017, and as part of attending a bootcamp I received a discount code for a free DeepLens! It arrived today.

The box

32GB micro SD card and power supply. Amazon made a single power brick with interchangeable prongs.

The front of the DeepLens

Rear view of the DeepLens

After unpacking, the package insert directed me to https://aws.amazon.com/DeepLens

I did not have any of the IAM roles so I clicked Create Roles

The setup created this role for me

I connected to the DeepLens’ wireless network

Connected the DeepLens to my WiFi

I clicked the install and reboot button; it disappeared with no progress indicator.

I watched for the device to come back up, and connected again to the device’s wireless. The install and reboot button appeared again, so I clicked it again. It finished this time

Now I needed to upload the certificate .zipfile that I downloaded earlier in the setup.

The streaming certificate is required to view video from the camera

I set a device password and enabled SSH.

Summary:

For my first project, I thought I’d add what looked to be one of the simplest ones, object detection.

After creating the project, I need to deploy it to the camera.

After a few minutes, the project was ready for use. 

That’s all for now – next post will be my first attempt to run the project.