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:

    Hexy 6 legged robot

    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.