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Those of us who own their robots are currently looking for ways to save them. Yesterday, the Vector Robot SDK was updated with some of the changes they had plan

Those of us who own their robots are currently looking for ways to save them. Yesterday, the Vector Robot SDK was updated with some of the changes they had planned to release in the future. The servers are still up; presumably so they can keep selling their existing stock for the conceivable future. But the full promise of functionality for Vector will never arrive.

universenz 8y ago
That's good to hear. I wonder what happens once the stock is all sold. Do you think they'll release the source?
- wvenable 8y ago
  I think it's extremely unlikely; when has any of these companies ever released the source to their products? Also, from my experience, Anki was really good with the security behind Vector. He's so locked down that they'd have to officially release a firmware just to provide the functionality to load alternative firmwares or access other services. And with SSL you can't MTTM any of his connections. I just don't see them having the resources to do anything more useful at this point.
dawnerd 8y ago
I hope they open source some stuff too. I'd hate to not be able to use their little "slot cars" because the mobile app goes away. They're quite a bit of fun, but the price ruined it.
- dawnerd 8y ago
  Actually kinda looks like it is semi-open source. https://github.com/anki/drive-sdk https://github.com/anki/drive-sdk https://github.com/jacopotagliabue/anki-drive-python-sdk https://github.com/jacopotagliabue/anki-drive-python-sdk
  - wvenable 8y ago
    That's just the SDKs. It won't help when the robot stops working because there are no more servers.
    - dawnerd 8y ago
      this is for the cars, not the robots. That seems to all me locally processed so as long as you can send messages to the cars no server needed.
mashgin 8y ago
I hope the servers keep running for the next few days, I won't get a chance to pull the updates until the weekend :/ On another note, not sure why some people are complaining about the price. I own a Cozmo and Vector, both seemed fairly priced to me.

universenz 8y ago

That's good to hear. I wonder what happens once the stock is all sold. Do you think they'll release the source?

wvenable 8y ago
I think it's extremely unlikely; when has any of these companies ever released the source to their products? Also, from my experience, Anki was really good with the security behind Vector. He's so locked down that they'd have to officially release a firmware just to provide the functionality to load alternative firmwares or access other services. And with SSL you can't MTTM any of his connections. I just don't see them having the resources to do anything more useful at this point.

dawnerd 8y ago

I hope they open source some stuff too. I'd hate to not be able to use their little "slot cars" because the mobile app goes away. They're quite a bit of fun, but the price ruined it.

dawnerd 8y ago
Actually kinda looks like it is semi-open source. https://github.com/anki/drive-sdk https://github.com/anki/drive-sdk https://github.com/jacopotagliabue/anki-drive-python-sdk https://github.com/jacopotagliabue/anki-drive-python-sdk
- wvenable 8y ago
  That's just the SDKs. It won't help when the robot stops working because there are no more servers.
  - dawnerd 8y ago
    this is for the cars, not the robots. That seems to all me locally processed so as long as you can send messages to the cars no server needed.

mashgin 8y ago

I hope the servers keep running for the next few days, I won't get a chance to pull the updates until the weekend :/ On another note, not sure why some people are complaining about the price. I own a Cozmo and Vector, both seemed fairly priced to me.