Spot Micro - Leika 🐕

A small quadruped robot, inspired by boston dynamic Spot.

Overview • Key Features • Documentation • Credits • License

📜 Overview

Leika is a smaller quadruped robot for the Spot-Micro community. Built on an ESP32 and powered by FreeRTOS, she can handle multiple tasks seamlessly - Like video and data streaming, solving kinematic and gait planning, controlling IO and much more. By focusing on practicality and simplicity in both hardware and software, it offer an accessible platform for learning, experimentation, and modest real-world applications.

🎯 Features

Live Preview: Instant feedback with real-time updates.
Real-Time Data: Stream camera feeds, monitor sensors, and analyze data on the fly.
Kinematic Precision: Full kinematic model for accurate movements.
Dual joystick controller
Robot mirroring visualization
Highly customizable
Self-Hosted: Complete autonomy, from code to execution.

🎮 Controller

🛠️ Documentation

You can find the current steps to get a fresh new doggo up and barking on /docs

🎮 Software

You can find a description for the current esp32 firmware and controller here.

🔮 Getting started

Clone and open the new project

git clone https://github.com/runeharlyk/SpotMicroESP32-Leika

Install dependencies with preferable package manager (npm, pnpm, yarn)
```
cd app
pnpm install
```
Configure device settings
1. Update factory_settings.ini with relevant settings
Upload filesystem image using platformIO
Upload firmware using platformIO

🚀 Future

See the project backlog and open issues for full list of proposed and active features (and known issues).

🙌 Credits

This project takes great inspiration from the following resources:

☕ Support

If you like the project and want to follow it evolving concidering ✨-ing the project

📃 License

MIT

runeharlyk.dk · GitHub @runeharlyk · LinkedIn @Rune Harlyk

runeharlyk/SpotMicroESP32-Leika