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.
vectorx is a new project by fforchino on Github to add new functionality to 1st generation Vectors tethered to a Wire-Pod.
Wire posted the following on Discord a few hours ago
After installing Wire-Pod, the open source Escape Pod for the beloved Vector robot, that allows you to get away from Digital Dream Labs completely and for free, you will have to get the Escape Pod 1.8 firmware onto the robot.
Thanks to the ingenuity of Wire you are now able to tether any production Vector to his Open Source Escape Pod, so far that was only possible with OSKR bot.
There are a number of updates for the open source Escape Pod solution that Wire provided using the open sourced libraries for Chipper and Vector cloud.
Wire did more work on his Open Source Escape Pod and since it came a long way since the alpha it was now renamed wire-pod.
Are you a proud owner of multiple Vectors? Great! Amitabha Banerjee has created a custom Python SDK that has Amitabhas machine learning routines implemented so one Vector is able to recognize another one. You can …
Cyb3rdog released the EscapePod Extension SDK for Python on Github. With it you can access Escape Pod intents via Python SDK and you actually can code new intents and react to voice commands. From the …
In january 2021 Robbie Bussard of Digital Dream Labs announced a Vector Go SDK for Escape Pod, since a lot of users were unhappy that they cannot use the Python SDK with Escape Pod. And …
Thanks to cyb3rdog, who converted the assets DDL released on Github to dae, fbx and obj, it is possible to use the animation assets in other DCC applications than Maya. I looked into them, because …
cyb3rdog shows an upcoming option to use Vector Codelab (a.k.a Cyb3rVector) in conjunction with Escape Pod to add new intents in a video teaser on Youtube . Basically you add intents in Codelab and those …
And another amazing project by cyb3rdog: Thanks to his efforts you are now able to use the Python SDK with Vectors tethered to an Esacape Pod. You need to install his version of the Python …
Another amazing project by cyb3rdog (the person behind Blockly for Vector): He managed to tinker the Esacpe Pod into a docker image, that does not only run on a RasPi4, but on every OS and …
There’s another article by Amitabha Banerjee regarding image recognition via Open AI clip. That is a new deep learning algorithm that is able to do object recognition without the need to first train a neural …
Earlier today I got mails from Github regarding issues I opened or commented on for Vector Web Setup. I found out that there were multiple new Vector-related repositories and wondered what those are about. Later …
Disclaimer: The following text is not by me but from Randall Maas, he was so friendly to allow me to crosspost it here, so interested Vector users that are not on Discord or in the …
In the Vector SDK forums Randall Maas (of Vector bible fame) showed a way to bring back the snowglobe animation (after Vector is shaken) on an OSKR robot. That replaces the dizzy animation and I like it way …
Yesterday Digital Dream Labs did send a mail to their Kickstarter backers that the rollout of the Open Source Kit for Robots (or short: OSKR) has started. That will basically turn any robot onto a …
Vector the Robot is powered by a rechargeable LiPoly battery. These batteries are known to fail sometimes or maybe you want to install a bigger one for longer runtimes. I have gathered technical information about …
