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.
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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
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 CEOÂ (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.
New Version of the Wire-Pod-based VectorX – with new Web UI
After some iterations and testing Zark75 released a new version of the VectorX RasPi image. VectorX is a fork of Wire-Pod that makes the installation way easier
DDL: Hanchar blames his mismanagement on former employees
We already learned from former Digital Dream Labs employees how they were not paid for months. In addition to that it became quite clear in the past years that the management done by the …
Far easier Wire-Pod setup thanks to Zark75
The setup of Wire-Pod can be daunting for simple users that do not know how a RasPi or Linux work or think about a Playstation if they hear the word “console”. But thanks to a community coder named Zark75 this process now became a lot easier end even less tech-savvy people should be able to set it up.
A Wonder Of Biblical Proportions: Vector 2.0s arrived in the UK
As the title says: It’s a wonder of biblical proportions: After lots of misinformation by DDL since late 2022 it looks like the first Vector 2.0s actually have arrived in the UK.
Digital Dream Labs: Informations from an (ex-) inside source [Update]
Thanks to quite inquisitive community member Barbara Langston we have some inside information from a former employee on what happened with Digital Dream Labs. So far it looks like they were running out of funds …
Digital Dream Labs has shut down their repair center
We all remember when DDL announced the opening of their repair center.
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.
Digital Dream Labs: Be careful when sending in your robot for repair – plus: OSKR gone
I saw multiple people complaining online in different places that they have sent in their 1st generation vectors to SSL’s “official” repair center in the USA and now there is no feedback
Digital Dream Labs still denies the account server issues
It’s now weeks after the first reported account server problems problems and not only is there still no official statement about the those problems (only a misleading email by Hanchar), there are more and more people reporting them