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Global semiconductor shortage and price updates
During the last year we, like many others, have had to deal with new challenges. Some of them have been personal while some have been work related. Although it’s been a challenge for us to distribute...
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Starting Development with the AI-deck
Ever since the AI-deck 1.x was released in early access, we’ve been excited to see so many users diving in and experimenting with it. The product is still in early access, where the hardware is deemed...
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Switching to Crazyflie-link-Cpp by default
A little while ago we made a blog post talking about the communication reliability, one part of this work did include an alternative CRTP link implementation for the Crazyflie lib. This week we will...
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Lighthouse Positioning Accuracy
Now that the Lighthouse deck is out of early access and we have made it easier to setup a lighthouse positioning system, we are currently at the next stage: showing how awesome it is! We feel that...
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Positioning System Overview
As you have noticed, we talk about the lighthouse positioning a lot these last couple of months ever since we got it out of early release. However, it is good to realize that it is not the only option...
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Crazyflie logging and parameters interface
Background In the past couple of weeks we have been busy trying to improve the development interface of the Crazyflie. We want to make developing with and for the platform a more pleasant experience....
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Robust Kalman Filter for Ultra-wideband Localization
This week we have a guest blog post from Wenda Zhao, Ph.D. candidate at the Dynamic System Lab (with Prof. Angela Schoellig), University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). Enjoy!...
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Rust, Wasm and the Crazyflie
For quite a while now, I have been very interested in the Rust programming language and since Jonas joined us we are two rust-enthusiast at Bitcraze. Rust is a relatively recent programming language...
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Ultra-Wideband Swarm Ranging
This week we have a guest blog post from Dr Feng Shan at School of Computer Science and EngineeringSoutheast University, China. Enjoy! It is possible to utilize tens and thousands of Crazyflies to...
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The Lighthouse Swarm bundle
If you haven’t visited our store in a while, you may have missed our new addition: the Lighthouse Swarm bundle! We’ve been working for some time now on improving the Lighthouse decks and its...
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Release 2021.06
We are happy to announce the availability of the 2021.06 release of the Crazyflie firmware and client! This release includes bugfixes related to flashing the Crazyflie and the Lighthouse deck and also...
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BAM days: celebrating Bitcraze’s 10 year anniversary
It feels like the day of yesterday, when Arnaud, Tobias and Marcus came together in a backyard shed and decided to go fully in developing the Crazyflie 1.0 and start a business. The result that came...
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Sniffy Bug: A Fully Autonomous Swarm of Gas-Seeking Nano Quadcopters in...
This week we have a guest blog post from Bart Duisterhof and Prof. Guido de Croon from the MAVlab, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering from the Delft University of Technology. Enjoy! Tiny drones are...
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Creating the Lighthouse swarm bundle
Ever since we released the Lighthouse deck back in 2019, we’ve wanted to offer a bundle with the deck and the base stations. There’s multiple reasons for this, but the main reason was that we wanted...
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The beginnings of a test lab
We like to describe the Crazyflie as a versatile open source flying development platform. It is something that enables you to do cool stuff. It is not a finished, polished end product in its own. The...
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How to Navigate through the Docs
How to handle our documentation has been always a bit of struggle. For almost 2 years (see this blogpost and this one) we have working on improving the documentation structure, with by transferring...
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Catching up after vacations
At Bitcraze, the team is starting to return from vacations even if it will take some weeks still until we are full force again. Work will pick up pace more and more from now, so if we have been slow...
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Building a Crazyflie thrust stand
Previously we have been using off the shelf scales and other methods to measure characteristics, such as thrust or efficiency, of the Crazyflie products. We thought it was time to build something that...
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10 years of Bitcraze
On September, 1st of 2011, Arnaud, Marcus and Tobias signed a paper in Lund registering their brand-new company: Bitcraze. We’re here, now, 10 years later, hardly believing this gamble paid off so...
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BAM days program
As you maybe remember, we decided to celebrate our 10 years anniversary with our very own conference. It’s going to be 3 days of online meeting, sharing and generally awesome meetups to connect,...
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