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Playing with a swarm show
We have been flying swarms in our office plenty of times. There is kind of a limitation to this though, our flying space is only around 4 x 4 meters. Flying 8 – 10 Crazyflies in this space is...
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Heterogeneous Trajectory Planning with Crazyflie and BigQuad Deck
Here at the USC ACT Lab we conduct research on coordinated multi-robot systems. One topic we are particularly interested in is coordinating teams consisting of multiple types of robots with different...
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Crazyflie and Augmented Reality
I’ve spent the last 5 years of my career at Microsoft on the team responsible for HoloLens and Windows Mixed Reality VR headsets. Typically, augmented reality applications deal with creating and...
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Multi-ranger deck update 2
It’s time for an update on the Multi-ranger deck (see previous updates here: 1, 2, 3). Back in February/March we were just about to start the production of the Multi-ranger deck when the new VL51L1 ToF...
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New Bitcraze VM development
The Bitcraze Virtual Machine is designed as a quick and isolated way to start development with Crazyflie and other bitcraze projects. The current VM is starting to get very old, even though we keep it...
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Warehouse issues and supply chain
Something we seldom write about on the blog is production and supply chain. It’s a big part of what we do, both in time and business wise. Even though we spend most of our time on firmware/software...
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Work on TDoA 3 started
First of all we are happy to announce that (almost) all products have been stocked in the new warehouse and are now shipping! The last orders that were on hold are on their way out and new orders...
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New Front page!
Returning visitors of our website might have noticed that we recently released a new and fresh design of our website’s front page. The goal has been to make a front page that better reflects Bitcraze...
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Join the team at Bitcraze!
Things are moving fast here at Bitcraze and we have lots of exciting things going on. So it’s time to grow the team and try to add one or two new team-members to increase the tempo and bring more...
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TDoA 3 progress
We have now worked a few weeks on the new TDoA 3 mode for the Loco Positioning System. We are happy with the results so far and think we managed to do what we aimed for: removing the single point of...
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The E-store moves to Sweden
A lot of awesome things have been going on at Bitcraze during the last couple of months (like TDoA3, Swarm shows and a new front page), but on the logistics side we’ve been struggling. Like we wrote a...
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MoCap deck
The Crazyflie 2.0 has been flyable in MoCap systems such as Qualisys, Vicon or Optitrack for quite a while thanks to the Crazyswarm project. For the MoCap systems to be able to track the Crazyflie it...
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A[nother] french in Malmö
Malmö is known to be very beautiful in June. At least that’s what i’ve heard from the Bitcraze team when we talked about having a meet-n-geek in their offices in Sweden. I’ve been working on the...
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Lighthouse positioning for Crazyflie
A while ago we bought an HTC Vive for the Bitcraze office. This was partly for having fun with VR, but is was mostly because we had hope to use the vive tracking system with the Crazyflie. We are...
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Summer cleanup
Like every summer, things slow down and people starts to go on vacation. This is a perfect time to sit down and start fixing various things that we never have time to fix. We call that the Summer...
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E-store and battery shipping update
After a couple of chaotic months of warehouse and logistics issues we’re now almost back on track! As noted before we’re now shipping orders from our E-store directly from our office in Sweden and...
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Bitcraze at iROS 2018 in Madrid
Last week we received the visit of Wolfgang from USC, he is the creator of the Crazyswarm project. It was great to have him here at the office. One of the subject of discussion was to prepare a demo...
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Lighthouse prototype deck development
We already wrote in a previous blog post that we where working on a Lighthouse positioning receiver deck for the Crazyflie 2.0. In this post we will describe a bit what has been the development process...
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Crazyflie RZR control board progress
We have been thinking for a while about making a Crazyflie control board that could be used to make a bigger quadcopter using the Crazyflie firmware and deck. This idea has materialized in the...
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We’re back!
The summer has been unusually long and warm here in Sweden, with a never ending sun beaming on the Bitcraze team members enjoying our vacation. As usual, at least one of us has been in the office at...
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