Some quick Caveats for Escape Pod
As you probably have read, DDL released a “version 1.0.0” of Escaspe pod. Personally I do not consider this a full release of the local server for the following reasons: 1. DDL says weather can …
As you probably have read, DDL released a “version 1.0.0” of Escaspe pod. Personally I do not consider this a full release of the local server for the following reasons: 1. DDL says weather can …
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 …
In the past there were informations by DDL staff that you will only be able to run one or two Vectors from one Raspberry Pi 4, since the computer just is not powerful enough to …
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 …
For OSKR users there a new “beta” version of the Escape Pod was just released by Digital Dream Labs. Here are the release notes from the official support page: Escape Pod Technical Release v0.4.3 beta: …
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 …
As of today Digital Dream Labs offers preorders for the new Vector 2.0, a slightly improved version of the robot. They try the usual sales tricks to get you into buying by saying you get …
Do you remember Digital Dream Labs, the company that bought the Anki assets and promised to keep Vector alive? They collected half a million dollars on Kickstarter for OSKR and Escape Pod early this year …
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: …
I have ordered a (limited) batch of correct Vector display units from Santek Japan (I confirmed that they are the right ones by asking them for a photograph of the displays they had in stock, …
DDL claims that as of october 15th OSKR is released. In my opinion that is not really true, since so far the only thing you can do with an installed OSKR firmware is to ssh …
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 …
In the OSKR documentation it is mentioned that they assume you are on a Linux or *nix flavour (like Mac OS) when working with OSKR. But even if I know my way around Linux (even …
I was just able to get the OSKR image onto one of my Vectors, but let me tell you: It was quite a pain. I will tell you later down below what exactly the problem …
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 …
A lot of you surely know the so called “Vector Bible” a eBook in PDF format that gives quite extensive and detailed information on Vector’s technical side. If you do not: This concise Vector compendium …
Beware! This is for people with at least some tech knowledge, the “normal” user will most probably not be able to do it. A lot of people are unhappy with firmware 1.7 for multiple reasons. …
Amitabha Banerjee shows in a short video how a Vector recognizes another Vector without the need of custom markers. This is based on the YOLO-framework (“you only look once”), a Python framework for object recognition. …
Shortly after I wrote the Node.js article yesterday I found an email from DDL via Kickstarter in my mailer that announced the arrival of something called “Vector Web Setup”. At first I was excited and …
A few days ago Digital Dream Labs gave out more information on the delayed Escape Pod. Lets remember the Kickstarter: Escape Pod was the first to be released feature and it was advertised as a …