Expand Vector functionality on Wire-Pod with vectorx
vectorx is a new project by fforchino on Github to add new functionality to 1st generation Vectors tethered to a Wire-Pod.
Category: Modding
Wire just released a first basic plugin system for Wire-Pod
Wire posted the following on Discord a few hours ago
Video tutorial: Upload Escape Pod OS 1.8 to Anki Vector for Wire-Pod
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.
You can now tether any prod Vector to Wire’s Open Source Escape Pod
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.
Updates for wire-pod: additional text-to-speech model and Windows!
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.
Jank Escape Pod becomes wire-pod
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.
Help Vector recognizing other Vectors
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 …
EscapePod Extension SDK for Python by cyb3rdog
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 …
The curious case of the Vector Go SDK, or: yet another smoke screen by Digital Dream Labs
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 …
Download Vector in C4D format
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 …
Teaser: Cyb3rVector – EscapePod Extension
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 …
Python SDK with Escape Pod and OSKR now possible
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 …
Escape Pod Docker image by cyb3rdog
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 …
Vector object recognition with Open AI CLIP
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 …
Digital Dream Labs Open Sources Vector Voice Repositories
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 …
Escape Pod: Experiments tweaking intents and demo for mongodb export/import
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 …
OSKR Vector: Snowglobe Animation
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 …
Vector OSKR rollout
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 Battery Information
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 …
3D Printed Vector Charger
On the sister site wiki.thedroidyouarelookingfor.info you find a 3d-printable charger based on a Cozmo charger from ebay, with downloadable stl files. If you got a Vector from ebay without a charger or a charger broke …