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New release: 2022.1
We are thrilled to announce the new 2022.1 release of the Crazyflie firmwares, library and client! There have been a lot of bug fixes, polishing and new features and we are glad we finally get to...
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Using Wireshark with the Crazyflie
You might, or might not have heard about a tool called Wireshark, it is quite popular in the software development world. Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network...
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The Toolbelt – Making development easier
The Toolbelt has been around for a pretty long time but we have not been that good at promoting it and documentation is unfortunately a bit sparse. In this blog post we will talk a bit about the...
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A new way to configure the Crazyflie firmware
This week we merged a pretty big change in the Crazyflie firmware code repository. The change altered the way we configure and build what goes in to the drone. We now make use of the Kbuild build...
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Lighthouse, SD-card and Biq-Quad deck updates
Keeping things in stock has not been easy the last couple of years due to the general problems with availability of components. We have been mitigating this by increasing stock volumes when it has...
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AI-deck improved infrastructure
During the last couple of months we’ve been working on getting the AI-deck out of early-access. One of the things needed for this to happen is an improved infrastructure for the AI-deck, like...
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Updates on Simulation work
In December we had a blogpost where we gave an overview of existing simulation models that were out there. In the mean time, I have done some work during my Fun Fridays to get this to work even...
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Multiple base stations with Lighthouse
There has been some background work going on related to the Lighthouse system, as mentioned in a previous blogpost. The solution has been improved since that blog post and we believe the functionality...
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New release 2022.03
There is a new fresh release of both the firmware and the python library and client! The last release (2022.01) was from 2 months ago but we already added quite some extra functionality so we wanted...
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The BAMs are back!
You surely remember that last fall, to celebrate our 10 year anniversary, we organized a 3 days online conference on our own. We actually loved it, and you seemed to like it to. So we’ve been...
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Let’s welcome Victor ! (and some stock updates)
A lot has happened at Bitcraze over the last months, which left us quite short-staffed. Thankfully, Victor has joined us again for a while. He mainly works on finishing his thesis with us, and we all...
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Happy Easter !
I know a lot of you will be too distracted by chocolate to read this post, so I will make it short. I am, too, a little distracted by sugar As I mentioned earlier, we’re a little under-staffed right...
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The Grand Tour
If anybody noticed a delay of my response on emails, forum or Github, that might be due to the fact that I was on the road for Bitcraze for the last few weeks! I was invited to give a guest lecture...
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Debug Tools in the Client Console Tab
We recently added improved support for assert information in the client and wanted to take this opportunity to describe some of the features in the console tab of the client that are useful for...
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Our coming plans for the community
Since the pandemic, having a close relationship with our contributors, partners, distributors and generally speaking, users, have been a challenge. We tried to keep in touch as much as possible, by...
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Release 2022.05 with new AIdeck Functionality
We have worked hard last week to get a new fresh release out before the summer months are on our doorstep. Not only that we would like to make sure that important bugs are fixed before some of us go...
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Digital Futures Drone Arena – a one-of-a-kind hackathon in Stockholm in June
This week, we welcome Airi Lampinen from Stockholm University, to talk about the Crazyflie competition she’s organizing in Stockholm. Welcome to our one-of-a-kind hackathon with Bitcraze’s Crazyflie...
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Community moves to Github Discussions
We have already announced it a bit on social media, but in this blogpost we are announcing it officially: we are moving our support to Github Discussions which can be reached by going to...
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Summer intern: Marios
Hello everyone, I am Marios from Greece studying towards my MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Patras. Marios Since last year I have been working on the Collaboration of 2...
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ICRA 2022: Crazyflie in Robotic Research
Earlier this month, ICRA 2022 was in held in Philadelphia and in person this time! Unfortunately we were unable to attend ourselves but quite happy that there were still virtual attendance options...
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