ORION: DESIGNING AND PROGRAMMING A CUSTOM QUADRUPED FROM SCRATCH

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Orion is a custom-built, 12-degree-of-freedom quadruped robot designed and programmed entirely from scratch. The system combines an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano for advanced stereo vision depth perception and LiDAR-based SLAM with an STM32-based microcontroller running FreeRTOS for low-level kinematic gaits and real-time stabilization. It provides a complete, open-source blueprint for constructing complex, dynamically stable legged systems using advanced embedded processors and modern spatial computing toolchains.