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 …
Tag: Vector Robot
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 …
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. …
DDL mail: Status Update on Vector Service Disruption
Yesterday evening (CEST) a mail with the following content arrived, I want to repost that here for those that are not receiving mails from Digital Dream Labs (I know from personal experience that their mail …
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 …
Escape Pod Docker image by cyb3rdog
Another amazing project by cyb3rdog (the person behind Blockly for Vector): He managed to tinker the Esacpe Pod into a docker image, that does not only run on a RasPi4, but on every OS and …
Cyb3rVector – code Vector with Blockly
cyb3rdog has a niftly project in Github called Cyb3rVector, that allows Vector to be coded with the Blockly-based Vector’s CodeLab. Blockly is a graphical coding tool that allows you to create programs (for example to …
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 …
How to compile Go projects on Windows
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 …
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 …
Escape Pod “Beta” 0.4.3 released
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: …
Vector object recognition with Open AI CLIP
There’s another article by Amitabha Banerjee regarding image recognition via Open AI clip. That is a new deep learning algorithm that is able to do object recognition without the need to first train a neural …
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 …
Python: Unknown Event Type
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: …
Europe: A limited number of Vector displays will be available soon
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, …
Deep Learning: Anki Vector Robot Dataset
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 …