Free you and your Vector from Digital Dream Labs forever! #FreeVector
Since it becomes more obvious every day that DDL cannot be trusted and it is unclear when their servers will come back up (if ever):
Tag: wire-pod
New Version of the Wire-Pod-based VectorX – with new Web UI
After some iterations and testing Zark75 released a new version of the VectorX RasPi image. VectorX is a fork of Wire-Pod that makes the installation way easier
Far easier Wire-Pod setup thanks to Zark75
The setup of Wire-Pod can be daunting for simple users that do not know how a RasPi or Linux work or think about a Playstation if they hear the word “console”. But thanks to a community coder named Zark75 this process now became a lot easier end even less tech-savvy people should be able to set it up.
Expand Vector functionality on Wire-Pod with vectorx
vectorx is a new project by fforchino on Github to add new functionality to 1st generation Vectors tethered to a Wire-Pod.
Wire just released a first basic plugin system for Wire-Pod
Wire posted the following on Discord a few hours ago
Node RED controls Vector via Python SDK on Wire-Pod
I have a small Linux box in NUC style that works as my Wire-Pod but idles most of the time, since it is way more powerful than a RasPi.
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.
Video tutorial: Upload Escape Pod OS 1.8 to Anki Vector for Wire-Pod
After installing Wire-Pod, the open source Escape Pod for the beloved Vector robot, that allows you to get away from Digital Dream Labs completely and for free, you will have to get the Escape Pod 1.8 firmware onto the robot.
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.
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.
Jank Escape Pod becomes wire-pod
Wire did more work on his Open Source Escape Pod and since it came a long way since the alpha it was now renamed wire-pod.