OpenBDX alpha

The open community for BDX builders

Build it.
Teach it.
Give it character.

Follow the Darkwing build guide, document your journey, share motion and policy work, remix with permanent credit, and see what the community has actually deployed.

137assembly steps 378BOM items 16motor checks
Open the Build Guide
Patch, a completed BD-X Darkwing robot

Explore

Things your duck can do—and wear.

Every creation has immutable revisions, compatibility details, a license, remix lineage, and separate counts for stars, collections, downloads, and deployments.

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Create locally, share openly

OpenBDX Studio:
create and connect.

PlaCo, Duckmation, project files, and robot access stay in the offline-first desktop app. OpenBDX handles discovery, attribution, conversation, rankings, and distribution.

OpenBDX Studio

Duckmation + Gait Forge

Create emotes and reference motions locally with the canonical PlaCo-backed tools, then publish an immutable revision to OpenBDX.

ƒWaddleScope

WaddleScope

View and interact with OpenBDX ONNX policies and emotes in the browser.

Paint Booth

Pay n' Spray

Try color schemes against the full Darkwing model, compare palettes, and move directly between paint ideas and the build guide without leaving OpenBDX.

Community

Ask, explain, and leave a trail.

Forum answers solve today's problem. Builder journals preserve the entire journey—including failures, substitutions, and the exact artifacts used.

Discussion forums

Active topics

Builder journals

Builds in progress

Credit that travels

Remix freely.
Keep the origin visible.

Stars remain honest: they belong to the artifact that earned them. Original creators separately receive downstream reach as descendants are collected, exported, remixed, and deployed.

PHappy Wiggleoriginal · @patchmakerFHappy Wiggle XLremix · @featherbyteMGreeting Packdescendant · @mallard
Original stars 184Direct remixes 17Downstream reach 412
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Simulation and deployment claims are not safety certification.

OpenBDX should validate file contracts and show real-world claims clearly, but the public browser must not directly command a physical robot in the first release.