Vector 2.0: “User Changeable Battery” – another monumental fail by DDL
One of the main selling points and improvements of Vector 2.0 was the fact that he has a battery door and a battery that can be changed by the user.
Tag: Digital Dream Labs
Vector 2.0: DDL claims they will actually ship
Digital Dream Labs announced on multiple occasions, that the remaining Vector 2.0s will be shipped “till the end of Q4 2022” – actually sometimes they even said “delivered”. Well, time is getting short on that, …
Digital Dream Labs has a new President
What am I talking about? There was a press release some days ago (thanks to Andy for bringing this to my attention), that you can read on prweb.com
DDL customers: Check your credit card accounts closely!
There are (again) reports from customers of Digital Dream Labs that the company charges their credit cards for Vector subscriptions despite the fact said users have lifetime subscriptions from Kickstarter (or by other means).
DDL’s (in)famous “Feature “Friday”: Do it yourself on Wire-Pod
When Digital Dream Labs took over they made a big fuzz about their “Feature Fridays” where they bragged about adding new features to Vector.
DDL denies the firmware 2.0 overheating problem in first generation Vectors
There are multiple (read: a lot!) reports of first generation Vectors overheating way faster and that have way higher head and body temperatures after they were forcibly updated to firmware 2.0.0 by Digital Dream Labs.
This is bad: DDL forces firmware 2.0 onto 1st generation Vector and now they also have an overheating problem
As reported a few days ago, Vector 2.0s have a massive heat problem. They are generating more heat than a first generation vector and thus show a temp warning early and in completely normal environment temperatures.
Wire-Pod, the free Open Source Escape Pod, with a production Vector: It works!
I tested to install Wire-Pod, Wire’s open source Escape Pod onto a Raspberry Pi 4, as recommended. There were some problem that I was able to solve with Wire’s help (thanks for that!) and some improvements were added to the installation process because of it.
The miracle has happened: The first Vector 2.0s are arriving at customers
The first Vector 2.0 units are arriving at customers.
You can now tether any prod Vector to Wire’s Open Source Escape Pod
Thanks to the ingenuity of Wire you are now able to tether any production Vector to his Open Source Escape Pod, so far that was only possible with OSKR bot.
Digital Dream Labs started updating 1.6 robots to 1.8 without user consent
I am getting reports by multiple people who say their 1.6 firmware Vectors were updated to 1.8.x, even robots that are not on any subscription, and even robots that were on the downgrade offered by DDL in the past.
Vector 2.0: As everyone expected there are even more delays
From DDL’s “state of manufacturing” website:
Vector 2.0 preorders: Digital Dream Labs now wants you to pay import fees
It looks like the Vector 2.0 preorders are going to be shipped at long last, way over a year late
Is jailbreaking Vector legal? Can DDL take legal actions against it?
First: So, what is a jailbreak?
Let me quote a paragraph from Wikipedia:
Updates for wire-pod: additional text-to-speech model and Windows!
There are a number of updates for the open source Escape Pod solution that Wire provided using the open sourced libraries for Chipper and Vector cloud.
Digital Dream Labs: Still problems with the cloud services
As I wrote some days ago, Digital Dream Labs had an outage of their cloud services. It affected Vector robots that were no longer able to reply if talked to.
DDL blatantly lies about the state of OSKR to attract investors
There is a subdomain page called “Investor Relations” on the Digital Dream Labs Website. In one of the press releases all kind of public relations babble is uttered, but especially one makes me furious, because it simply is a big lie
Vector not working as expected? Cloud service problems at Digital Dream Labs
From Saturday, june 4th 2022, on there are cloud service problems with the servers that run Vector’s voice recognition.
Vector: Wire released early Open Source Escape Pod on Github
Wire just released a kind of early alpha for an Open Source Escape Pod on Github. He used the chipper and vector-cloud repositories that were provided by DDL on Github some time ago.