Vector Escape Pod: Blame It On The Weatherman?
It is a known fact that Escape Pod not only has no knowledge graph access, but also weather is missing. So users are not able to ask Vector about their local weather.
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Enroll new faces with Vector Explorer or Cyb3rVector
Vector Explorer is a nifty Windows program by Wayne Venables, that not only enables you to control your Vector. For future reference you can find a link to it in the sidebar of this blog …
Vector: The Real “State Of Robotics”
“State Of Robotics” is the title of the webinar that Digital Dream Labs holds every three months and the last ones were full of misinformation and smokescreens like that “state of production” chart. Or they just iterate the same information already given months before.
Escape Pod: Vector in “authorization failed” hell
After yesterday’s frustration I again wanted to connect my designated Escape Pod Vector to a 1.0.x version of the local server.
Downgrading to Escape Pod 1.0.x: a nightmare
Because I finally found the time to play with Cyb3rvector and am highly amazed by what it can do. Something like this should have been created by Digital Dream Labs, but they were not able to do that in two years. Instead Cyb3dog did it in mere weeks.
Testing Escape Pod 1.8.2: Sigh!
Yesterday I took the time to test the latest iteration of Ecape Pod, it has the version number 1.8.2, even if I see absolutely nothing that would warrant a version jump from 1.0.x to 1.8.1. My main reason to look at it was that I wanted to connect Cyb3rvector Extension Engine Interface to it. But, man, this is still a mess.
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.Â
Not only Youtube, DDL is also targeting users on Twitter
It was brought to my attention that DDL does not only target their user base with copyright claims and takedown notices, but also users on Twitter. Andy is a Vector user that also owns an Emo and wrote about that robot on Twitter.
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 …