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New Loco TDoA outlier filter
In this blog post we will take a look at the new Loco positioning TDoA outlier filter, but first a couple of announcements. Announcements Crazyradio PA out of stock Some of you may have noticed that...
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Flapper Drones and positioning systems
This week’s guest blogpost is from Matěj Karásek from Flapper Drones, about flying the Nimble + with a positioning system. Enjoy! Flapper Drones are bioinspired robots flying by flapping their wings,...
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Crazyradio 2.0 is almost there!
As you might have noticed, most of our bundles are currently unavailable because Crazyradio PA is out of stock. We are currently finishing the production for the Crazyradio PA replacement, Crazyradio...
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Come move with drones in beautiful, curious, and provocative ways at the...
Today, our guest Airi Lampinen from Stockholm University is presenting the second Drone Arena Challenge. Enjoy! Welcome to the second Drone Arena Challenge, a one-of-a-kind interactive experience with...
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Safety and the Brushless
It is easy to forget that the reason why it is nice to develop for the Crazyflie is because it weighs only about 30 grams. In case something goes wrong with your script or there is a fly-away, you can...
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Working at Bitcraze
I talked about it here already in October, but there is a lot we want to do here at Bitcraze- and not enough people to do it. So, we’re still looking for a new team member! You can read more about our...
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Modifying a thrust stand for small motors
When designing flying robots like drones it is important to be able to benchmark and test the propulsion system which in this case is a speed controller, motor and propeller. As we at Bitcraze are...
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London calling
In just about 2 weeks, it’s ICRA 2023, which, as you could guess from the title of the post, is in London. The ExCel venue will welcome the world’s top academics, researchers, and industry...
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Adding Wings to ROS: Forming an Aerial Robotics Community Working Group
If you have been following the ROS Discourse on a regular basis, you might have seen a bit more activity on the Aerial Vehicles category than usual. We very recently started an Aerial Robotics Working...
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ICRA 2023
As mentioned in a previous blog post, we have a both at ICRA in London this week. If you are there too, come and visit us in booth H10 and tell us what you are working on! Barbara and Arnaud is...
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New release, 2023.06
We’re happy to announce that there is a new release of the software for the Crazyflie ecosystem! The new release is called 2023.06 and is available for download on github or through the python client....
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ICRA 2023: Crazyflie’s adventures in Robotic Research
As you may have noticed from the recent blog posts, we were very excited about ICRA London 2023! And it seems that we had every right to be, as this conference had the highest number of Crazyflie...
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New 350mA Li-Po on the way
We are happy to announce that we are working on a new upgrade battery for the Crazyflies! It will soon hit production and hopefully, keeping our fingers crossed, it will arrive in our stock in early...
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Behind the scenes: improved packing
Did you know that all the items you receive when you place an order are actually from the Bitcraze office? In the beginning, we had the shipping handled by a third party, but it caused some problems...
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Online courses in Aerial Robotics
In our ROS-aerial community working group, we had a meeting a few weeks ago to discuss education and tutorials within Aerial Robotics (see the ROS discourse thread here). The general conclusion was...
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TU Delft Science Centre Swarming Lab
Today, Lennart Bult from Emergent Swarns presents us with this project of a 24/7 swarming demo. Enjoy! Over the last few months our team has been working on creating a 24/7 swarming demo. Initially...
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Bitcraze’s summer
It’s summer here in Sweden, which means a lot of sun, heat, and… well, right now, rain, but hopefully things will get better. Credits: Silvia Man/imagebank.sweden.se As every year, we try to enjoy it...
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The infinite flight
When the Crazyflie was created the intended use case was manual flight with one drone. Over the years we have added support for positioning, swarms, autonomous flight and all sorts of nice features,...
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High school students learn about electrical engineering with the Crazyflie
This early summer my research group (Center for Project-Based Learning at ETH Zürich) was in charge of a special week – high school students from all over Switzerland (actually even the world, they...
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Developer and Aerial ROS meetings so far
As of this year around March/April we started with both Bitcraze developer meetings and Aerial-ROS meetings (the latter in collaboration with Dronecode Foundation). Now that summer is around and our...
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