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Towards Persistent, Adaptive Multi-robot Systems
This week’s Monday post is a guest post written by members of the Robust Adaptive Systems Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. As researchers in the Robust Adaptive Systems Lab (Director: Prof. Nathan...
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Qualisys visiting Bitcraze
A couple of weeks ago Qualisys visited us at the Bitcraze office, they came with the Miqus motion capture system that they installed temporary in the office. This gave us the opportunity to play with...
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Multi-robot Path Planning for Flying-and-Driving Vehicles
This week’s Monday post is a guest post written by members of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. One of the focuses of the Distributed Robotics Lab, which is run by Daniela...
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It’s summer again!
It is summer again in Sweden and things are now starting to slow down and people are going to vacation. The last couple of years we have used the summer to look back and clean-up the technical dept...
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Crazyflie 2.0 Flow deck
We are pleased to announce the release of a new expansion deck for Crazyflie 2.0: the Flow deck. The flow deck is a new expansion board for Crazyflie 2.0 that contains an optical flow sensor from...
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Crazyflie-based quadcopter with Raspberry pi camera
There have been a few requests from the community for a brushless Crazyflie and we blogged about a prototype we are working on a few weeks ago. The most common reason for wanting brushless motors is to...
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Flow breakout
Last week we released the Flow deck, it enables you to get really stable autonomous flight with the Crazyflie without requiring an external positioning system. We have been lucky to get access to the...
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Playing with the Flow deck
As we announced recently, the Flow deck for the Crazyflie has been released. There was a high demand the first days and we were unfortunately out of stock in the store for a short time, but now we are...
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End of development for Crazyflie 1 firmware
The Crazyflie, the original one, usually called Crazyflie 1 to avoid confusion, was the first commercially available open source nano quadcopter back in 2013. After getting feedback on the platform and...
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Improved swarm support in Loco Positioning with TDoA 2.0
We have had an implementation of a Time Difference of Arrival algorithm (TDoA) in the Crazyflie 2.o and the Loco Positioning System for quite a long time. The coolest feature of the TDoA algorithm is...
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The Flow breakout board is released
We are proud to announce that the Flow breakout board is available in our store! The Flow breakout board is built around the Pixart PMW3901 optical flow tracking sensor and the ST VL53L0x ranging...
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Wrong pin header in the Flow breakout board package
We announced the release of the Flow breakout board yesterday and we were happy to finally get it into the store. A few hours later we got some samples of the first production batch to the office and...
View ArticleTouchless mouse with flow breakout
Las week we announced that we released the Flow Breakout board. During the week we also played a bit with the board and the outcome is a hackster project that describes how to make a Touchless Mouse...
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New prototype: Obstacle avoidance/SLAM deck
At any given time we have a bunch of deck ideas floating around. Some of them might not be doable (or very hard), but still fun to discuss. Other we just never get around to since we’re always pressed...
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Wedding show
It was inevitable. At some point we needed to do a drone show of our own and wouldn’t the best occasion be on one of our coworkers wedding party! Well we have done demos before on maker fairs and...
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Glow deck
A long time ago we got a request for a bright LED deck from a community member. When working with high powered leds heat becomes a problem that needs to be taken into account. From the community...
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Obstacle avoidance/SLAM deck initial testing
A few weeks ago we wrote about a new prototype that we call “the obstacle avoidance deck”. Basically it’s a deck fitted with multiple VL53L0x ToF distance sensors that measures the distance front/back,...
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Automated anchor position estimation
One of the pain points when setting up the Loco Positioning system is to measure the anchor positions and enter them into the system. I wanted to see if I could automate this task and let the system...
View ArticleNews from the comunity
It has been a while since we have made a blog post about the the community and quite a lot has happened, and is about to happen, so we though we would do an update for this Monday post. Fred, the...
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let’s meet at Maker Faire Shenzhen!
We are going to China and Maker Faire Shenzhen Nov 11-12. Come and meet us in the Seeed Studio stand, we love talking to makers and geeks! We have started working on a demo and the plan is to show an...
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