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The IROS 2022 demo
IROS in Kyoto is over and all Bitcrazers are finally back in Sweden again. We had a really good time in Japan and enjoyed all the interesting discussions we had with all of you, thanks! In this blog...
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NanoFlowNet: Real-Time Dense Optical Flow on a Nano Quadcopter
This week’s guest blogpost is from Rik Bouwmeester from the Micro Air Vehicle lab, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. Tiny quadcopters like the Crazyflie can be...
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New Crazyradio and new communication architecture
The communication protocols between a PC, a Crazyradio and a Crazyflie are critical parts of the Crazyflie ecosystem, they allow to communicate with and control the Crazyflies in real time. These...
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FPV deck hack
Hey, Victor here! I’ve been flying FPV drones for some time and while I usually fly bigger drones (3-5 inch props) I have always wanted to put an analog camera on the Crazyflie to fly it in FPV. So, a...
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IROS 2022: Crazyflie’s adventures in Robotic Research
Announcement: We will have a townhall meeting this Wednesday (7th of December) about Crazyradio 2.0 and the ideas about the new com-stack at 15:00 (3 pm) CET. Please follow the discussion here for...
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Victor’s thesis & leave
Hey, Victor here! As some of you may know, I’ve worked at Bitcraze for two summers (2019, 2020), and I did my Bachelor’s thesis here during the spring this year. While we mentioned shortly that I...
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Merry Christmas!
Santa is soon to be knocking on the door, hopefully with one or two exciting toys (with blinking LEDs) for us geeky people! There will not be a Christmas video in the Bitcraze gift this year, instead...
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The Big Loco Test Show
This year, the traditional Christmas video was overtaken by a big project that we had at the end of November: creating a test show with the help of CollMot. First, a little context: CollMot is a show...
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Goodbye 2022!
It’s the end of the year, and as usual, it’s time to be a little nostalgic and look back at what happened at Bitcraze during the last 12 months. Community 2022 marked the easing out of the pandemic;...
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Hello 2023!
2023 has already begun, and we have some ideas and hopes on what this new year will mean for Bitcraze. Of course, what 2022 has proven to us is that the world is unpredictable; but it doesn’t stop us...
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From Crazyflies to “Crazybats”
This week’s guest blogpost is from Frederike Dümbgen presenting her latest work from her PhD project at the Laboratory of Audiovisual Communications (LCAV), EPFL, and is currently a Postdoc at the...
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Hej, I am Hanna :)
My name is Hanna, and I just started as an intern at Bitcraze. However, it is not my first time working with a drone or even the Crazyflie, so I’ll tell you a bit about how I ended up here. The first...
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Crazyradio 2.0
As already announced in a previous blog post, we have been working on a replacement for the Crazyradio PA. Crazyradio is the USB dongle used to communicate with Crazyflie 2.1, Crazyflie Bolt and any...
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Adding an estimator or controller
A common task with the Crazyflie is to add a new controller or estimator. As we get some questions on how to do this, we will outline the process in this post. We will show how to add a custom...
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Crazyflie in research – and in video
It’s time for a new compilation video about how the Crazyflie is used in research ! The last one featured already a lot of awesome work, but a lot happened since then, both in research and at...
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Crazyflie communication stack Dev Meeting
As we have talked about in previous blog post, a big work, and a big change, coming to the Crazyflie is the development of a new communication stack. We are organizing an online dev-meeting about this...
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The 2023.02 release is out
We’re happy to announce that the 2023.02 release is available for download! The main new features of this release are: Out of tree controllers We have made it easier to add a new controller to the...
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AI-deck Documentation and Examples Update
A big part of our work is to provide examples, getting-started guides and other documentation to get users started quickly. Documentation should be up-to-date, be understandable and detailed but, at...
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Drones in the dance performance “Flying bodies across the fields”
This week’s guest blogpost is from Florian Goralsky from Bok o Bok about their dance piece with multiple Crazyflies. Enjoy! Flying bodies across the fields is a contemporary dance piece for four...
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Monthly Developer Meetings and ICRA 2023
We are excited to announce that we will be having developer meetings on first Wednesdays of every month! Additionally, we are thrilled to be present in person at ICRA 2023 in London. During the same...
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