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The Loco positioning system
Our Ultra Wide Band (UWB) based positioning system, the Loco Positioning System, has been around for a long time and is still going strong! In this post we will tell you a bit about how it works (for...
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Working on CPX: Current status and future
Last week we had the first ever Bitcraze DEV meeting! With about 10 participants, we covered a range of topics. The meeting was mostly focused around how to handle support and what the DEV meetings...
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Crazyflie Summer Project with ROS2 and Mapping
In the first years that I started at Bitcraze I’ve been focused mostly on embedded development and algorithmic design like the app layer, controllers and estimators and such, however recently I...
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Flapper Drones – bioinspired robots powered by Crazyflie Bolt
As the Crazyflie ecosystem expands, more and more novel aerial (but also ground or hybrid) robots are being built with one of the Crazyflie controllers onboard. For recent examples, you can check e.g....
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Bitcraze on the Road
We’re now in the middle of summer, and even though we’re not affected by the heat much here in Sweden, we’re still in a slower pace as usual, since a lot of us are not at the office. Sales, packing,...
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H-ModQuad: Modularity for Versatility
This week we have a guest blog post from Jiawei Xu and David Saldaña from the Swarmslab at Lehigh University. Enjoy! Limits of flying vehicles Advancements in technology have made quadrotor drones...
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Crazyflie ROS2 summer update
Now it is time to give a little update about the ongoing ROS2 related projects. About a month ago we gave you an heads-up about the Summer ROS2 project I was working on, and even though the end goal...
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Single Actuator Monocopters (SAMs)
This week’s guest blogpost is from Xinyu Cai from the research group of ShaoHui Foong, located in the Engineering Product Development Faculty from Singapore University of Technology and Design. Please...
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CFclient: GUI, Lighthouse and Bolt improvements
There are some nice and exciting improvement in the CF-client that we worked on during the summer months! First of all we worked on a toolbox structure, where every tab can be reconfigured as a...
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And we are back!
After a period of bitcrazer-vacations, we are now all back at work. The summer here in Sweden has generally been great. Some of us stayed here to keep the company afloat, and some just stayed afloat...
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Our Intern Marios’ Summer work on Swarms
Hello world, you had probably seen me from the last blog post when I first arrived. I spent this summer working here in Malmö and I can definitely say that it was one great, educative and fun...
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Using the AI deck for CRTP over WiFi (via CPX)
Before the summer vacations, I had the opportunity to spend some time working on AI deck improvements (blog post). One of the goals I set was to get CRTP over WiFi working, and try to fix issues along...
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Towards Autonomous Flight on Nano-Drones with Multi-zone Depth Sensors
This weeks guest blog post is from Hanna Müller, Vlad Niculescu and Tommaso Polonelli, who are working with Luca Benini at the Integrated Systems Lab and Michele Magno at the Center for Project-Based...
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New release: 2022.09
A new release of the Crazyflie firmware, client and library is out! There’s lots of new stuff included, below is a summary of the largest changes: Full support for two more more Lighthouse base...
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IMAV 2022: NanoQuadcopter challenge and more!
Last week we went on a nice trip to Delft, The Netherlands to attend the 22th International Mico Aerial Vehicle Conference and Competition, this time organized by the MAVlab of the TU Delft. Me (Kim),...
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Bitcraze in Japan
This fall is full of exciting events for us, and none are more excitedly expected than our visit to Japan. Yes, the whole company (6 people) are travelling to Kyoto for at least a week – but not for...
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Crazyswarm2 development
As you probably noticed already, this summer I experimented with ROS2 and connecting the Crazyflie with multi-ranger to several mapping and navigation nodes (see this and this blogpost). First I...
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Thrust upgrade kit for the Crazyflie 2.1
Propellers of high quality and good balance has not been easy to find for drones in the Crazyflie size. Not that long ago HQ-prop released a propeller, 51MMX2GR-1MM-PC, with 51mm in diameter (2 inch)...
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We’re in Japan !
I already talked about it here and there, but this day finally came: the whole company is in Japan !Kimberly travelled first, to account for jetlag, meet with some people, and attend ROScon. It was...
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Bitcraze is hiring
Since last March, some members of the Bitcraze team went away. Jonas left, and Arnaud took his parental leave. We welcomed an intern, and eventually Arnaud came back but our 6 person team feels a...
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