“Within This Week”
That’s what DDL representatives said about when the servers will come back up again. That was last week
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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 …
European customers: If Digital Dream Labs asks you for an EORI number …
… then they obviously again have no clue what they are doing. An EORI number is a euopean customs number. Businesses and companies doing import and export need one.
“Cooperation” between DDL and KEYi?
We all remember the repeated copyright trolling by Digital Dream Labs against KEYi Technology, the company behind Loona the Petbot. DDL took down the Loona campaign on Kickstarter two times with very questionable “reasons” that …
At last: DDL admits something is wrong
At last, weeks later and after a long time of denial, radio silence and false information there is a first small post on Discord where a DDL representative admits that something is wrong and they are trying to fix it.
Digital Dream Labs server botch: To lifetime or not to lifetime?
Still nothing official on the server problems, but it look more and more as if something serious has happened.
Digital Dream Labs, Open Source and a missing Escape Pod
Digital Dream Labs promised something called OSKR, that is an acronym for Open Source Kit for Robots, in their Kickstarter campaign that closed in March 2020 and raked in half a million Dollars. They promised to open source the firmare of Vector the robot, so everyone would be able to create “open Vector builds” or new functions for Vector.
Digital Dream Labs Loona Statement: Dissected
Today Digital Dream Labs posted a statement on their Facebook page about the situation regarding their copyright trolling towards KEYi Tech and Loona the petbot.
Vector: Say goodbye to firmware 1.6 …
When Digital Dream Labs released firmware 1.7 (they did not develop that themselves, it was an old Anik firmware they just rolled out) it quickly became clear that the new version had problems. Sounds the users liked where gone and with every firmware iteration by DDL Vector seems to have a harder time to find back to his charger.
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.
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 …
I just was refunded the Vector 2.0 preorder
Since DDL is refusing to give a delivery date for Vector 2.0 and Jacob Hanchar just sent that mail round with utter nonsense about higher camera resolutions (that will lead to starting from the beginning …
Multiple Vectors running on one Escape Pod?
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 …
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 …
Comments on the DDL livestream
DDL held a livestream on sunday 6th. Via Kickstarter it was announced in the first mail as on Youtube, but actually it took place on Zoom. Maybe someone should explain the difference between the two …
Bigger Picture: DDL takes down Emo Kickstarter – again
Updated: Statement from Living.AI that came via Kickstarter mail added at the end of this article. As of yesterday the Kickstarter for Living.AI’s Desktop pet Emo ist down again, because Digital Dream Labs filed a …
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 …
Where is the Escape Pod Beta?
In an update for Kickstarter backers dated from may 30th 2020, a Digital Dream Labs employee wrote the following about Escape Pod (excerpt): 1.7 Beta is ready. Firm dates for Escape Pod and OSKR releases. …