Digital Dream Labs: No OSKR because nobody knows how to do it
Digital Dream Labs stopped giving our OSKR images some months ago. My suspicion was that no one at the highly unprofessional company was left to create and give out htose images.
Tag: OSKR
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
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: Big OSKR filedrop on Github
A few days ago there was a file drop in the Digital Dream Labs Vector OSKR repository on Github. Under “engine” quite some files were added, most of them c++ files from Vectors engine, as the folder name suggests.
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. …
Python SDK with Escape Pod and OSKR now possible
And another amazing project by cyb3rdog: Thanks to his efforts you are now able to use the Python SDK with Vectors tethered to an Esacape Pod. You need to install his version of the Python …
OSKR Vector: Snowglobe Animation
In the Vector SDK forums Randall Maas (of Vector bible fame) showed a way to bring back the snowglobe animation (after Vector is shaken) on an OSKR robot. That replaces the dizzy animation and I like it way …
Digital Dream Labs and The Butter Bot
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 …
Is OSKR actually released?
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 …
OSKR – Windows: SSH With RSA Key using Putty
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 …
First Adventures With OSKR
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 …
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 …