Micro Badling

every duck, one pond

Micro Badling is a free web app that connects to and shepherds a badling of Microduck robots over Web Bluetooth — several ducks at once, straight from Chrome or Edge, nothing to install. (A badling is what a group of ducks is called.)

What it does

• Connect to any duck in radio range, with PIN pairing
• Wi-Fi provisioning — scan networks, join, forget, and jump to the duck's WebRTC console once it has an address
• Firmware updates — check, apply with live progress, roll back, or select an installed release
• Health — battery, hottest servo, board temperature, control-loop rate, and IMU state, refreshed live
• Gamepad — pair a controller, list bonds, forget
• Identity — rename or reboot each duck

No hardware? Hatch a test duck — a built-in simulator that speaks the same protocol as the real robot. Motor control is deliberately absent: the robot refuses it over Bluetooth by design, so driving and the camera live on each duck's own console.

Requirements

Web Bluetooth needs Chrome or Edge over HTTPS. Other browsers can still explore the pond with simulated ducks.

Open source at github.com/morsela/microbadling, including the @microduck/sdk TypeScript SDK it is built on.