AWS DevOps
2024 Hackathon: ASW Step Function Feedback
From the AWS Samples on Github, we take a look at how to get real-time feedback from Step Functions
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Hackathon
Artificial Intelligence
AWS Sample+ Hackathon: CDK to Terraform
Convert AWS CDK to Terraform with Amazon Q Developer in a hackathon project for faster deployments.
Machine Learning
Toadbook Hackathon Project
Discover how Metal Toad's team utilized AWS services and ML to create a simple social network platform at their latest hackathon. Explore the...
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad Prompt Engineering Hackathon
In this latest event, in the last week of September we embarked on a journey to learn how to work with prompt engineering, unleashing the power of...
Machine Learning
Hackathon Autumn 2023: Machine Learning Assisted Development (or Prompt Engineering)
'Freedom to Fail' is occasionally touted as a key way to learn, but actual freedom to fail in the workplace is rare, so it's a treat to be able to...
Hackathon
Prompt Engineering Hackathon Learnings
As Large Language Models have risen to the everyday usage, Metal Toad took a few days to have a hackathon and see how much they could accomplish in 2...
Artificial Intelligence
ReactJS Amplify App Part I - Overview and Auth
This is a three part post about our experience using AWS Amplify to develop a food logging app for the Metal Toad hackathon. Here in part one we...
Machine Learning
3 Ways To Use Machine Learning: December 2021 Hackathon Overview
With a new emphasis on machine learning, our December 2021 Hackathon focused on building your own machine learning model. Learn about what our Toads...
Machine Learning
Q4 2021 Online Hackathon: Identifying Downed Power Lines
From our online hackathon, read Team Brazuca's journey on using machine learning to create a model that can identify downed power lines.
Machine Learning
Announcing The Metal Toad Q4 2021 Online Hackathon: Building Your Own Machine Learning Model
It's that magical time of the year - our hackathon is back! Twice a year, we set aside the day-to-day and dive into an exciting 48-hour innovation...
Machine Learning
The Future of Cloud Security
1) What is the state of cloud security today? Cloud security today is
Hackathon
Metal Toad’s Remote Work AWS Hackathon: Outcomes & Innovations
Metal Toad's AWS hackathon showcased innovative remote work solutions, from real-time translation to virtual classrooms, proving remote...
Artificial Intelligence
Remote Work 2020 Hackathon: Branded Video Chat Software
What was the challenge/problem your team wanted to solve? Santa Claus was
Database
AWS Chime: Lessons learned
A lot has changed during 2020. One is the number of people working remotely. That’s the Q4 hackathon theme was “Remote Work in 2020”.
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad’s 2020 Hackathon: AWS Remote Work Innovations
It’s hackathon time again at Metal Toad! Twice a year, we set aside the day-to-day and dive into an exciting 48-hour innovation whirlwind of rapid...
Artificial Intelligence
AWS Rekognition, Comprehend, and Transcribe
Babu Frik, an Anzellan droidsmith with a talent for bypassing droid security systems, erased C3PO's memory. He felt very sad about it. He decided to...
Hackathon
Live Stream From Drone To AWS With S3 Backup
Drones are awesome, and a lot of fun. But what happens if your drone gets lost along with all its footage?
Git
Remote live streaming to AWS Media Services from a DJI Spark drone
I’m Vaughn Hawk, a Cloud Engineer for Metal Toad for over 3 years.
Hackathon
Hackathon Collaboration with Live Share on Visual Studio
Collaborate in remote Hackathons using Visual Studio Code's Live Share tool for real-time coding, debugging, and server sharing, enhancing team...
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad & AWS Media Services: What We Hacked
Wednesday, May 6th at 9:00 am: Toads are poised at the starting line. Metal Toad’s AWS Media Services hackathon is about to begin!
AWS DevOps
AWS Media Services + AWS Amplify
YouToad For the first Metal Toad hackathon of 2020, our goal was to build a web based social media platform for on demand video using AWS Media...
Hackathon
Metal Toad Hackathon - A unique (non-technical) experience
Have you ever felt happy, nervous, motivated and excited in just 48 hours? If your answer is no you have never participated in a hackathon before!
AWS DevOps
Lambda: javascript vs python
For this hackathon we created a product, YouToad, using Amplify
Machine Learning
Creating a Scavenger Hunt on Android With TensorFlow
Prior to Google IO 2017, I would have expected creating an image classifier that functions on an Android device to either not work, be terribly slow,...
Artificial Intelligence
ReactJS Amplify App Pt II - Storage
The banner and food feed have placeholder images that are ready to accept an avatar image. Now on to storing and retrieving an avatar in an s3 bucket...