# Newbie looking for help with RF-DETR nano on Google Colab
**URL:** https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/newbie-looking-for-help-with-rf-detr-nano-on-google-colab/10842
**Category:** 🤝 Community Help
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**Created:** [August 4, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/newbie-looking-for-help-with-rf-detr-nano-on-google-colab/10842 "2025-08-04T17:19:15Z")
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### Author:  [@giorgio](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/giorgio)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/newbie-looking-for-help-with-rf-detr-nano-on-google-colab/10842/1 "2025-08-04T17:19:15Z")
Hi everyone, I’m completely new to object detection and coding in general, but I’m very interested in learning more about it. I’d like to try out a pre-trained RR-DETR (nano) model on a Google Colab notebook, I trained it on roboflow, but I have no idea how to upload it and get it running on google colab
Could someone please help me with a simple guide or example to load and test it in Colab? Even a very basic step-by-step with code would be super helpful. Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@Automatez](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Automatez)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/newbie-looking-for-help-with-rf-detr-nano-on-google-colab/10842/2 "2025-08-04T19:28:38Z")
You’re going to have fun with all this stuff! If you’re new to every aspect of this, I’d say you’d have more success building a workflow where you can then test your model right in the browser. Roboflow seemed to have created the Workflow feature for just this situation! [This article](https://docs.roboflow.com/workflows/what-is-workflows) will help you get started. If there’s a reason you want to work in Colab maybe expand on why that is critical and others can help with that aspect. Happy building!
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### Author:  [@Ford](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Ford)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/newbie-looking-for-help-with-rf-detr-nano-on-google-colab/10842/3 "2025-08-04T20:33:30Z")
Hi @giorgio!
First off, welcome to the Roboflow Community!
This is a great question! To test your model in Colab, start out building a workflow similar to the one below:
Next, click on the `Deploy` button within the red circle above. This will give you the code snippet seen below, that you can copy and paste into Colab to test your model!
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### Author:  [@giorgio](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/giorgio)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2025, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/newbie-looking-for-help-with-rf-detr-nano-on-google-colab/10842/4 "2025-08-05T09:01:27Z")
Hi @Ford,
Thanks so much for your reply — images are working great now, really appreciate it! I also tried using videos, but I seem to be running into a wall there with google colab. I don’t know how to do it with videos. I tried running it on my PC as a server, downloaded Docker and Roboflow Inference, but it seems like neither of them is working — due to a weak setup. What should I do now?
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### Author:  [@giorgio](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/giorgio)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2025, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/newbie-looking-for-help-with-rf-detr-nano-on-google-colab/10842/5 "2025-08-05T09:05:04Z")
> [@Automatez](#):
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> You’re going to have fun with all this stuff! If you’re new to every aspect of this, I’d say you’d have more success building a workflow where you can then test your model right in the browser. Roboflow seemed to have created the Workflow feature for just this situation! [This article](https://docs.roboflow.com/workflows/what-is-workflows) will help you get started. If there’s a reason you want to work in Colab maybe expand on why that is critical and others can help with that aspect. Happy building!
Thanks a lot! I’ll definitely check out the Workflow feature. I was using Colab mainly because my local setup isn’t strong enough, especially for working with videos. But if the browser-based option supports that too, it might be the better way to go. Appreciate the help!