OctoMY™ History

Remember the ready-to-run robot software.

• The work continues!

  The work on OctoMY™ never really stops. If you want to join the effort and create the new history, please see how to contribute!

• Website reboot

  We put Google Sites Classic behind us and created the website the project deserved based on Python + FastAPI + jinja2 + Bootstrap. 🥳

• Migrate to Qbs

  The project migrated from qmake build system to Qbs

• Migrate to Qt6

  The project migrated from Qt5 to Qt6. Arguably it is Qter than ever😅

• Hiatus

  The project took a well deserved break to properly saviour COVID19😷🤕🤒 and other disasters💣🪖💥⚔️😢 properly. But in the darkeness the monster did not sleep...

• Migration to gitlab

  The project was migrated from github to gitlab.

• Makeover completed

  The project overhaul (a.k.a. OctoMY™ v2) was completed successfully after intense efforts for 6 months and the project was now becomming very mature.

  Some highlights:

  • No compiler warnings or errors allowed.
  • Some libraries renamed to better more descriptive names.
  • Some libraries merged.
  • Some libraries split up, especially libcore and libutil.
  • Some libraries or parts will be removed outright.
  • Widgets and ui files are distributed among the libraries they belong to.
  • Resource files are distributed among the libraries they belong to.
  • All libraries receive README.md to describe them better.
  • Formatting of sources modified to follow the standard.
  • Translation unit optimizations to reduce buildtime.

• Third Anniversary

  The project celebrated it's 3rd anniversary and a plan to completely overhaul the project was unveiled (a.k.a. OctoMY™ v2)

• License Update

  The mandate and license was updated.

• Second Anniversary

  The project celebrated 2nd year anniversary.

• Mandate unveiled

  The official OctoMY™ mandate was created and subsequently all the communication was changed to align with the goals of the mandate.

• First Anniversary

  The project celebrated it's 1st year anniversary🥳.

  By the end of it's first year, the OctoMY™ project had come surprisingly far:

  • The project compiled to Desktop and Android targets.
  • The project had an alright security model in its core.
  • Lot's of time had gone into making it user-friendly for the beginner while not getting in the way of the experts, and it showed.
  • The project was running very stable thanks to quality being thought of from the start. It had already started racking up quite a lot of automated tests.
  • It incorporated a protocol for discovery, pairing and communication with peers over UDP.
  • It incorporated a gait planner for legged robots.
  • It incorporated facial expressions, speech, stats logging and a HUD.
  • It was still very much work in progress, and features would break every day. It was still not ready for the masses, but very close.

• Blog started

  The OctoMY™ blog was started! It was actually converted from Lennart's old personal blog, but since that blog had already started talking 90% about the OctoMY™ project, a name and brand change was in order.

• Project founded

  The OctoMY™ project was officially started, after the founder bought one of these:

  

  for X-Mas.

  After we had a great time assembling it he was shocked at the poor state of the software that came with the kit. It barely managed to play back some pre-recorded animations, and definitely none of the fancy Phoenix stuff that we anticipated after watching a whole lot of videos on YouTube.

  So as an experienced developer and hobby robot enthusiast Lennart set out to "correct the problem". This was the beginning of the OctoMY™ project, and while the scope has grown significantly since then, the basic idea is still the same; bring the cool stuff to the masses in an easy way.

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