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Back from ICRA 2019
3 of us where at ICRA 2019 in Montreal last week, where we met a lot of interesting people and a lot of Crazyflie users. Thanks a lot to everyone that drop by our booth, and for the ones that missed...
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Making a radio test-bench for Crazyflie2
While running our ICRA demo, we came across a bug in the Crazyflie python-lib radio handling, limiting the number of Crazyflie that could be controlled using one Crazyradio PA. Communication with many...
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Communication improvements
Many of our users are flying larger and larger swarms and we’ve been getting some feedback that there’s communication issues when connecting to many Crazyflies. So during the last weeks we’ve been...
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The RZR becomes the Bolt
We have now come to a the point were we will start manufacturing of the Crazyflie Bolt, Formally known as the RZR. You might wonder why we changed the name… Well the RZR more implies it is a Racer...
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Playing with Crazyflie 2.1 choreography with Lighthouse positioning
We have recently moved to a new bigger office. With the summer arriving in Sweden, it was time to organize a small move-in after-work party with friends and family. For the occasion we wanted to play...
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Summer 2019 Wrap Up
Summer is here and temperatures are rising. Since many of us will be on holidays, we will focus this quarter on a special summer clean up! See here what we are working on: Fixing issues: This time we...
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Synchronous swarm example
Two weeks ago we posted about the demo we did for our new office move-in party. There has been multiple requests to share the script but unfortunately this is a hacked old script that is not going to...
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Crazyflie 2.1 back in stock!
This time a very short Wednesday post, but with a very important announcement: we have received more Crazyflie 2.1‘s!!! We also have received more propellers, spare parts bundles, Flowdeck v2 ‘s This...
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Improving Documentation
Improving the flow of information Our usual blog posts usually consists of the awesome new products and demos that we make here at Bitcraze, but now we will talk about… documentation! Alright alright,...
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Forum problems
A lot of you are using our forum on a regular basis. From our point of view, we prefer giving support and guidance on our forum instead of by email, since solutions we provide to our users can be...
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Creating trajectories for the High-level Commander with Bezier curves
The High-level Commander has been part of the Crazyflie firmware since the 2018.10 release. In combination with a positioning system, it can fly the Crazyflie along a trajectory that is either defined...
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Summer “internship”
Hello everyone, I’m Victor and you probably haven’t heard of me yet but I’ve got the awesome opportunity to spend some weeks during this summer working at Bitcraze. Working… Well, I’ve spent the...
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We’re hiring!
We have so many interesting things we want to do, but too little time to do it. Now we are looking for more talented people to join our team to help us create awesomeness! We don’t have a clear...
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Autumn conference schedule
We have a busy schedule in the fall, since we are planning to travel all around the world for all kinds of awesome conferences and symposia. Here is a quick overview of where we are planning to go in...
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The Active marker deck
We have briefly mentioned the Active marker deck earlier in our blog and in this post we will describe how it works and what it is all about. The Active marker deck is a result of our collaboration...
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Switching Bitcraze servers to Kubernetes
Working at Bitcraze means designing electronics as well as writing software for it, but there is also a lot of other things going-on and managing servers is one of them. Originally, in 2011 we had a...
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Fun Fridays
We have referred to Fun Fridays in a number of posts in this blog, but recently realized that we never described what it is about. Hopefully that will be rectified in this post. Light painting The...
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Excited about IMAV 2019
The Crazyflie Bolt and the Crazyflie 2.1 with the lighthouse deck are coming to Madrid! Only one week away until the start of the big Bitcraze Conference frenzy, with the first stop… Madrid! We will...
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New release is out, 2019.09
We are happy to announce that we have made new official releases of a number of our software components. The name of the release is 2019.09 and we have outlined the main changes below....
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Sneak peak of the AI-deck
As pointed out in Daniele’s blog post about the PULP-DroNet we are collaborating on a AI-deck built around the new GAP8 RISC-V multi-core MCU. In the blog post you can find all the details around...
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