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Crazyflie on the catwalk at Berlin Fashion Week
During the fall of 2016 fashion designer Maartje Dijkstra have in collaboration with music producer Beorn Lebenstedt (Newk) and engineer Erik Overmeire been working with the creation “TranSwarm...
View ArticleBack from FOSDEM 2017
For the third year some of us from Bitcraze visited Fosdem, the biggest open-source European conference. Like the other years we enjoyed being there a lot and we had a great time hanging-out with...
View ArticleTDoA swarm with the Loco Positioning system
We have spent most of our time working on the two way ranging in the Loco Positioning system lately, mainly on features that are not directly related to the actual ranging but such as making it easier...
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Loco Positioning soon to leave early access
Bitcraze is not organized as most other companies, we are self organizing, strong believers in continuous improvement and are minimizing planing to be as agile and flexible as possible. We have written...
View ArticleCrazyflie 2.0 as an autonomous flying platform
Crazyflie has been used by hackers and researchers as an autonomous flying platform for a while, though it has required expensive or very special software and equipment. Universities and the industry...
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Collaborate with us!
Lately the Crazyflie has been used more and more as a demonstration and reference platform by a number of sensor manufacturers, including Bosch Sensortec. The possibility to add expansion decks to the...
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Porting the Crazyflie client to Qt5
The Crazyflie client, the software running on a computer that is used to control and get telemetry from the Crazyflie, is written in Python and used PyQt4 as graphical user interface framework. This...
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Autonomous photo shoot
Early on when we started to work on the Loco Positioning system, we came up with an idea of a Crazyflie autonomously flying into a light box, positioning it self for a few product pictures and then...
View ArticleUpdated autonomous flight using OpenCV and Kalman filter
At Bitcraze we have some history with trying to fly our Crazyflie autonomously. The most recent step is the Loco Positioning System that allows us, and you, to fly in a full room. The Loco Positioning...
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The Bitcraze E-shop is now official!
Seeedstudio has been our main distributor and manufacturer since we started and they have also acted as our main sales channel. A couple of years ago we started to discuss setting up our own E-shop...
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Z-ranger deck now availible
For those of you out there that are new to flying drones the height is often the most difficult thing to control. One solution to that problem is our newly released Z-ranger deck that can precisely...
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Crazyflie firmware and client release 2017.4 with Z-Ranger support
We are happy to announce that we have released new versions of the Crazyflie Firmware and the Crazyflie client, both are now in version 2017.4. The main feature of the release is support for the new...
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Crazyradio: past, present and future
The past The Crazyradio has been designed as a radio dongle to control the original Crazyflie 1. It is based on a Nordic Semiconductor nRF24LU1. It is basically the radio from Crazyflie 1, the...
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Loco positioning tag
Ever since we released the Alpha round of the Loco positioning system we’ve been talking about designing a more generic tag that could be used together with other robotics platforms for local...
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Meet us in Singapore!
We are going to the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Singapore. The exhibition is open Tuesday May 30 to Thursday June 1 and we will have a booth, number C08, where we will...
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Demo for ICRA 2017
A couple of weeks ago we played with recording and retracing trajectory directly from the Crazyflie using Loco Positioning System. The result was quite nice and resulted, a first for us, in a fully...
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Loco positioning out of early access!
We have been working with our indoor positioning system for over a year now and during that time the interest for the Loco positioning system have continuously been growing. Universities all over the...
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New Office
Last week while Kristoffer and Arnaud was in Singapore showcasing our Loco positioning system and Crazyflie at ICRA we initiated moving to a new bigger room here at The Ground. The Ground is a great...
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ICRA 2017
We exhibited at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Singapore a couple of weeks ago. We had a booth where we demoed autonomous flight with the Crazyflie 2.0 and the Loco...
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Prototype of a brushless Crazyflie
For a while now we have been selling the BigQuad deck which makes it possible to transform the CF2 to control a bigger sized drone. It does so by becoming the quadrotor control board, controlling...
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