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Position control moved into the firmware
As some of you might know, we are working full ahead on developing a local positioning system for the Crazyflie 2.0 ecosystem. There are many things to be done and we just took two major step by...
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Visiting Chalmers
Two weeks ago we had the opportunity to make a field trip to Gothenburg (Sweden) where we visited the students and teachers at Chalmers University of Technology. The Crazyflie 2.0 is used by the...
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Loco positioning is coming soon!
As early as when the first Crazyflie prototype did it’s first flight back in 2009, we where dreaming about a local positioning system that would allow our future micro quadcopter to fly autonomously...
View ArticleLoco positioning early access
Like we announced last week we will be releasing the Loco Positioning system in a couple of weeks. Last week, we added product pages for the Loco Positioning boards on our website. We have also made a...
View ArticleImproving Crazyflie 2.0 flight performance
While it is a central part of a quadcopter the core of the Crazyflie 2.0 had not moved since we released it. We deemed it to be good enough, it was flying and going fast after all. Recently...
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Loco positioning in LTH Math Department
At Lund University PhD student Kenneth Bastone and professor Kalle Åström are currently using the Crazyflie and the Bitcraze ultra-wide band based Loco Positioning system as part of their research...
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Bitcraze in China for Loco Positioning production
We are excited to announce that we have just started the production of the first boards for the Loco Positioning system! Since this is the first batch of a complex new product, we thought we should be...
View ArticleGetting started with Loco positioning
We are right now eagerly awaiting the first batch of the Loco positioning system to be done and ready for shipping. The interest for the early access release has been very encouraging and we are super...
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Comunity progress on Crazyflie internal position control
The loco positioning hardware is now manufactured and we are working hard on making it available. Loco positioning is still in early access, which means that we have tested the hardware but that the...
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Summer at Bitcraze
As summer is here, in the northern part of the hemisphere, in Sweden we like to have a bit of vacation to charge up with new energy. Thus the forward momentum will decline a bit but it also means less...
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A brand new Bitcraze shop
Up until now, we’ve made our products available to customers through Seeedstudio and a number of distributors around the world. This has been a great solution since we’ve been able to focus on...
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Standalone controller
Controlling the Crazyflie from the PC client through the Crazyradio gives you a lot of flexibility and power when it comes to coding and scripting. The drawback is that you need a computer and...
View ArticleVisiting ETH and pushing the Kalman Filter
As noted in a previous post, Mike Hamer from ETH Zurich has been implementing an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) for the Crazyflie. The beginning of this week I am visiting Michael at ETH and we have now...
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A word from Aman, the intern
Going out of the norm for this week, this blog post is about my experience as an intern at Bitcraze. My name is Aman and I joined Bitcraze 8 weeks ago hoping to gain more experience and knowledge in...
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How we work
It is summer time and the tempo in the office is a somewhat slow as most of the Bitcrazers are on vacation recharging their batteries for future awesomeness. This weeks blog post will not contain any...
View ArticleTestflight with the BigQuad-deck and a GoPro
Summertime is a good time to get outside and play :-). For a long time we have been having an assembled Turnigy tylon frame here at the office just lying around and it was time to put a camera on it...
View ArticleCrazySwarm
What’s better than a single Crazyflie? A swarm of them! Over a year ago our research group at the University of Southern California posted a blog post with the title “Towards CrazySwarms“, explaining...
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Maker Faire Berlin 2016
Maker Faire Berlin 2016 is coming up and we will be there to show of the latest and greatest from our lab. The plan is to show: the Loco Positioning system and autonomous flight a (small) swarm – we...
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Improving the Crazyflie 2.0 I2C driver
ST Microelectronics have become quite known for their complex and somewhat buggy I2C peripheral, especially for their STM32F103 device (see errata). Where for instance the I2C interrupt priority needs...
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Crazyflie 1.0/2.0 new firmware release 2016.09
It’s been over six months since our last Crazyflie 1.0/2.0 firmware release and it was about time to do a new one. We have always had the idea to release often but can’t really say we have succeed....
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