AI-FanGe/Microduck-build-tutorial
A practical hardware and software setup for a compact RL-powered biped robot.
About the project
Microduck is a compact bipedal robot project on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with 14 Dynamixel XL330 servos and a BNO08x IMU. It includes deployment code for walking via an ONNX policy and a reinforcement learning training environment based on MuJoCo/MjLab.
Useful for
- Assemble the robot following the guide: prepare hardware, flash microduck.img.xz, and set up Wi-Fi
- Train a new walking policy in MuJoCo/MjLab and export walk.onnx
- Run the prebuilt walking model on Raspberry Pi via SSH and control it with a gamepad
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 20 stars so far today, about 24 expected by the end of the day.
- Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 28% of the previous week and a half.
- The repository is 14 days old and already has 981 stars.
- Top new repositories this month: #82.
- About 11 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 981
- Stars in a day
- 24
- Forks
- 252
- Issues and pull requests
- 10
- Watchers
- 10
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- image.v1 · September 5, 2026
- Created
- September 4, 2026
- Last push
- September 11, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
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- September 18, 2026Top new repositories this month: #81
- September 17, 2026Top new repositories this month: #85
- September 16, 2026Top new repositories this month: #95
- September 15, 2026Top new repositories this month: #99
- September 14, 2026Top new repositories this month: #100
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