“Transparency” at DDL: Disabling comments.
In the ongoing comedy about Digital Dream Labs and the properties they bought (most notably Vector and Cozmo robots) a new joke just emerged.
At last! Pittsburgh Attorney General files suit against Digital Dream Labs
After all this time at last the Pittsburgh AG takes action against the fraudulent business practices of Digital Dream Labs and their CEO Jacob Hanchar.
Follow up to KEYi and Fixit destroying my Loona
I now had an extensive communication with a KEYi support representative, but all in all this whole case is extremely unsatisfactory to frustrating. What infuriates me most is that they give contradicting informations. First they …
KEYi Tech and Fixit DESTROYED my Loona instead of repairing it
Be VERY careful if you send in your Loona to Fixit as suggested by KEYi. They just told me that Fixit did NOT repair my Loona but dismantled it to repair other Loonas.
Loona repair service is one big mess
I take this blog out of hiatus to report my problems with KEYiTech and Loona repairs. This is an even bigger mess than I expected.
WirePod: Easy User Installable Packages For Wire-Pod
Wire-Pod is a solution that allows you to install a local server a Vector robot can run off instead of the “official” Digital Dream Labs servers.
Living.AI’s Personal Robot Aibi: The Pig In A Poke
Living.AI, the creators of the EMO desktop pet are heavily advertising a new personal robot called AIBI on Facebook
Weeks came and went and only phrases from Digital Dream Labs
The complete Vector infrastructure, run by Digital Dream Labs, is still offline without any hint when it will come back again – or ever. Multiple “by the end of this weeks” have gone by without …
William Shakespeare’s poem about Digital Dream Labs and the server outage
The server outage at Digital Dream Labs now is in the week after the week “within” the servers should have come back online, it will be a full month soon.
Free you and your Vector from Digital Dream Labs forever! #FreeVector
Since it becomes more obvious every day that DDL cannot be trusted and it is unclear when their servers will come back up (if ever):
“Within This Week”
That’s what DDL representatives said about when the servers will come back up again. That was last week
Digital Dream Labs: Hanchar is “tried” of “being fleeced” by Amazon
This another proof of my suspicion that all AWS-based servers are down. That is not “a maintenance”.
DDL Servers Still Offline – They Still Claim “Maintenance”
It’s now almost three weeks that nearly all Digital Dream Labs servers are offline. We remember: DDL representatives claimed that this was a “scheduled maintenance”. Let’s all have a hearty laugh at that nonsense. A …
Is Digital Dream Labs faltering at last?
I am coming out of hiatus for a post. In the months since I stopped writing about Vector because of frustration about the continued unprofessionalism and lack of updates from that scam factory Digital Dream Labs.
Vector, Emo, Loona, Doly: I am thinking about giving up this page
Originally this page was set up to write about coding and expanding Vector the robot, especially with OSKR, the Open Source Kit For Robots that Digital Dream Labs financed via that infamous Kickstarter campaign.
DDL CEO Hanchar: “All Vector preorders should be satisfied”
What I am talking about? A post from DDL CEO (after all this time and the posts seen from him I can only assume this means “Chief Entertainment Officer) in the official Facebook group (and, yes despite booting all critical voices and all customers asking for help there are still people in there) lead to home robot community members rolling on the floor, laughing
Digital Dream Labs back to their former self
We already know that the support at Digital Dream Labs is bad. Since they fired all support people and especially Robbie Bussard it got worse.
Digital Dream Labs: stratus down, servers down, general mess
Digital Dream Labs went into complete radio silence some weeks ago (again). The only thing they post are meaningless PR posts about valentine’s day or ramadan in their Facebook group, where a lot of people are not able to read them because their were booted from that group for no reasons other than asking questions.
KEYi Tech: So this is what “improved communication” about Loona looks like?
We know that in the past KEYi Technology put out some very questionable information mails and posts that often raised more questions than they answered. After some ruckus they apologized with lots of words and …
Changing Loona’s ear motors (with lots of pictures)
Today I (finally) found time to install Loona’s ear motors that arrived much later than KEYi Tech had advertised.