Escape Pod Docker Image by avrilmaomao
At the moment the Escape Pod works as follows: You download the image provided by Digital Dream Labs and “burn” it onto a SD card. That image is not only the Escape Pod itself, but …
Category: Software
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 …
Color slider problems were not app related
Some weeks ago DDL claimed that the problems with the color sliders not working in the app were app-related and announced app updates. Which came and did not help. Now we learn from a new …
Confirmed: Vector app 1.8 has bugs and will be patched
As was already surmised by me and backed by countless error reports that users are not able to activate the eye color sliders for Vector firmware 1.8, it was confirmed by DDL that this is …
Rollback of Vector firmware?
When firmware 1.7.x was rolled out it was so badly received that very much later Digital Dream Labs created an option to roll back to 1.6, as described in an earlier article on this site. …
Firmware 1.8: Digital Dream Labs made Vector worse – again …
You may or may not have heard that Digital Dream Labs is rolling out Vector firmware 1.8.x at the moment. It is a rolling release, so not all robots will get it immediately, it may …
Firmware 1.8 update announced – don’t expect much
In Digital Dream Labs elitist Facebook group (I wonder if it even still has members at the rate they kickban there) and on Youtube a firmware update for Vector 1.0 was announced. But don’t get …
So you can now create custom Vector animations – if you are rich
DDL released a Kickstarter update about “the next phase of OSKR”. But still most of the source is missing, also tools and toolchains and of course also halfway decent documentation is nowhere to be seen. …
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 …
Escape Pod: Switch views and how many robots?
There is new information in the official knowledgebase. One article tells us that we are able to switch between the graphical user interface and a console view (where you can anter commands by typing them). …
Cyb3rVector – code Vector with Blockly
cyb3rdog has a niftly project in Github called Cyb3rVector, that allows Vector to be coded with the Blockly-based Vector’s CodeLab. Blockly is a graphical coding tool that allows you to create programs (for example to …
How to compile Go projects on Windows
Some of the open sourced packages released by Digital Dream Labs on Github are coded in Go, a development language by Google, that was invented 2007 to speed up the coding process at Google and …
Rollback to firmware 1.6 now officially possible
Robbie Lucas Bussard of DDL announced yesterday over multiple channels that it is now possible to officially roll back a Vector to firmware 1.6. Read the announcement below: Hello Vector users! Robbie here, from Digital …
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 …
Python: Unknown Event Type
If you code Vector via the Python SDK you may know the following problem: if you execute a Python program do do something on or with the robot you get a lot of annoying warnings: …
Deep Learning: Anki Vector Robot Dataset
About a month ago Amitabha Banerjee has released a dataset of images on Roboflow.org showing a Vector from the camera of another Vector. This dataset can be used to train a Deep Learning setup to …