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## Welcome to AWS DeepLens Recipes

Recipes are curated tutorials from the AWS team designed to show you how to build ML-powered applications with DeepLens.



<div class="card-deck">
{{< recipe-card 
    title="Sample Projects"
    level="Beginner"
    time="Time: 10 mins"
    img_src="/images/000_intro/sample-face-rec.jpg"
    body="Quickly try out pre-built ML projects on your DeepLens."
    link="/200_beginner/210_deploy_a_sample_project/"
    >}}
{{< recipe-card 
    title="Worker Safety"
    level="Intermediate"
    time="Time: 1 hr"
    img_src="/images/000_intro/worker-safety.jpg"
    body="Use AWS DeepLens and Amazon Rekognition to build an application that helps identify if a person at a construction site is wearing a hard hat."
    link="/300_intermediate/310_worker_safety/"
    >}}
{{< recipe-card 
    title="Coffee Counter"
    level="Intermediate"
    time="Time: 1 hr"
    img_src="/images/000_intro/coffee-counter.jpg"
    body="Build an application that counts the number of cups of coffee that people drink and displays the tally on a leaderboard."
    link="/300_intermediate/320_coffee_counter/"
    >}}
</div>
<div class="card-deck">
{{< recipe-card 
    title="Guess my Drawing"
    level="Intermediate"
    time="Time: 1-2 hrs"
    img_src="/images/000_intro/guess-drawing.jpg"
    body="Build a Pictionary-style game with AWS DeepLens and Amazon Alexa."
    link="/300_intermediate/330_guess_drawing/"
    >}}
 {{< recipe-card 
    title="Trash Sorter"
    level="Advanced"
    time="Time: 1-2 hrs"
    img_src="/images/000_intro/trash-sorter.jpg"
    body="Build a custom ML model to separate trash, compost and recyclables."
    link="/400_advanced/410_trash_sorter/"
    >}}
 {{< recipe-card
    title="Posture Tracker"
    level="Advanced"
    time="Time: 1-2 hrs"
    img_src="/images/000_intro/posture-tracker.jpg"
    body="Build a posture tracker with GluonCV"
    link="/400_advanced/420_posture_tracker/"
    >}}
</div>