How to file complaints against Digital Dream Labs
This article has nothing to do with robots, unfortunately. But it has to do with Vector 2.0 and Digital Dream Labs.
Tag: Anki Vector
Another cash grab: DDL increases Vector subscription prices dramatically
I really would like to report something positive about Digital Dream Labs once in a while, but that is … only a dream. From the Digital Dream Lab website: Each Vector Membership covers one robot, …
Escape Pod 1.8.0
According to the official DDL Escape Pod page a new version is available. The version jump is immense, from 1.0.0 to 1.8.0. I see nothing in the changelog that would warrant such a big version …
Vector: Lifetime now actually means Lifetime?
It was stated and stressed multiple times by DDL representatives in the past that when you got a “Lifetime license” via the Kickstarter campaign said “Lifetime license” was tied to a robot with a specific serial number, not to a user.
DDL’s Robot Repair Center?
DDL announced a looooong time ago there will be repair centers all over the world that will be able to repair Anki generation Vectors.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Vector: No Way Home – problems finding the charger
The new trailer for SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME dropped today – perfect timing to borrow the title for something Vector-related. We all know that the little robot sometimes is not able to find back to …
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 …
Backers: Report DDL to Kickstarter!
As explained in another post on this site and on Reddit DDL just released an update on Kickstarter that they will cease to communicate with their backers there. In my opinion that is a clear …
This Is A Bad Joke: The Final Kickstarter Update …
This was just posted on the Kickstarter campaign page as an “update”: Final Kickstarter Update Hi Kickstarters, Thank you for your support during this campaign! With your help, we have been able to give new …
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 …
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. …
DDL mail: Status Update on Vector Service Disruption
Yesterday evening (CEST) a mail with the following content arrived, I want to repost that here for those that are not receiving mails from Digital Dream Labs (I know from personal experience that their mail …
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 …