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Vacation is over
We are back from vacation and now it’s full speed ahead! As you might have read during the holidays there hasn’t been that much going on, we have been resting up for a busy spring. During the upcoming...
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Crazyflie OpenCV tracking test
We’re still busy with administrative stuff and preparing everything for release so sorry for the lack of tech posts. Hopefully there will be more time for those later But we did spend one night this...
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Only weeks left
Who knew that it was possible to discuss product descriptions for almost a whole evening… Since the release is getting really close now we actually have finalize the product description and it turns...
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Assembly video
Back in November when we got the pre-series we shot an assembly video showing how to assemble a Crazyflie kit. We shot it in Tobias shed in his back garden where it was about 10*C, that’s why Marcus is...
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Pre-order has started!
Wait, what? Is it Monday again already?! Well no, don’t worry you didn’t miss the weekend. The reason for breaking our “Monday post” tradition is that we couldn’t wait to announce that the pre-order...
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Development support features
So finally it’s Monday again As you might have noticed the Crazyflie got released for pre-release last week! All our code has now been pushed onto Bitbucket and our repositories can be found here....
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The two most exciting weeks so far!
Hi, Monday again. We just passed the two most exiting weeks in Bitcraze history. As we speak we are passing the 1K Crazyflie sold which is about 5 times over our optimistic estimations. Now the...
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End of the pre-order
So after three very busy weeks the pre-order will close today. We are really overwhelmed by the attention that the project hs gotten and number of Crazyflie kits that we have sold. We are also very...
View ArticleProduction start-up
Like we wrote last week we are busy with a lot of administrative stuff (box design, component sourcing, answering emails etc). But we managed to do a few commits to the crazyflie-pc-client during the...
View ArticleBitcraze VM and OSX client
As announced on the last Monday post and as well discussed on the forum, one of the things we are working on right now is to create a virtual machine (VM) that would greatly reduce the haste of getting...
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First FPV flight test
The community interest for FPV flight made us buy a light weight analog FPV kits a while a go. We bought the 5.8GHz micro combo set from fpvhobby to do a first test. It took a little while to solder...
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Debugging enhancement
Nothing new exiting about the production, it is still going as planned . Meanwhile we are focusing on stabilizing the Crazyflie firmware and its side projects. This weekend we fixed a bug related to...
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First production samples has arrived!
We just received the first 10 sample boards from the production at Seeedstudio e So far we got time to test only two boards and they are working. We have finalized the firmware, bootloader and...
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PC-free Crazyflie controllers
Even though controlling the Crazyflie with a PC is quite unique and permits a lot interesting things to be done, like controlling Crazyflie with a webcam or getting realtime telemetry, we have also...
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Visiting Seeedstudio
This week and the next we will be visiting Seeedstudio for the first time so tonight we have been finalizing the travel plans! That might sound easy but it’s been a bit like solving a puzzle since we...
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In Shenzhen at Seeedstudio
So, like we wrote last Monday, we are visiting Seeedstudio in Shenzhen, China. It’s been a great visit and we have gotten a chance to see both the Seeedstudio offices, the production and a bit of...
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Soon pre-orders will start shipping
It’s been a really hectic last couple of weeks and we are now very close to shipping the first batch of Crazyflies. It is a very big step for us so we would like to start by thanking you for your...
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First units received
Finally after more than 2 years of work on the kit, the first Crazyflie Nano Quadcopters are arriving at customers! It’s been a long journey with lots of ups and downs, and we are really happy that we...
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Crazyflies all over the world
It’s been an incredible week seeing people from all over the world getting their Crazyflies into the air!! We have seen videos of people doing crazy stuff we never thought of, 3D models of cases and...
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Another week of fixes and contributions
It’s been another week with lots of stuff going on. Shortly after the Crazyflies were delivered things really started to accelerate. Now there’s lots of cool stuff going on and we are trying to keep up...
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