Officially moved to GitHub
Finally after some issues and lots of interruptions we made the move to GitHub. We will keep the BitBucket repos (but as read-only) since there’s lots of inbound links for code and issues. If you are...
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Visit to Embedded World and TUM university München.
Last week was a hectic but exiting week for me. First I visited Embedded World in Nürnberg and then made a visit to TUM university in München. I was actually visiting Embedded World because ST...
View ArticleBitcraze VM 0.5 and Raspberry Pi image 0.3 released
We have released version 0.5 of the Bitcraze Virtual Machine and version 0.3 of the Raspberry Pi image. Here are some of the changes for Bitcraze VM 0.5: Upgraded all Ubuntu Packages Installed custom...
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Joining the business incubator Minc
A couple of weeks ago we moved into the Malmö based business incubator Minc. It’s a great chance to get some extra help developing Bitcraze and also to get a chance to meet people from other start-ups....
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Crazyflie with GPS, round 2
A couple of weeks ago we attached a uBlox MAX-7 GPS module to the Crazyflie (blog post). Back then it was mostly a proof of concept, all we did was to re-route the raw GPS data (in text NMEA format)...
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Brushless driver for the Crazyflie
A while ago I started working on a brushless motor control driver for the Crazyflie. I implemented most of it but did not really have time to test it. Recently we have gotten some request and questions...
View ArticleLogging and parameter frameworks tutorial continued
A while ago we posted a tutorial on how to modify the firmware to add logging/parameters and to plot/modify them from the client. We have done a continuation on this tutorial to show how to modify the...
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Off to speak at Devoxx in Paris
This week we are heading off to Paris in France to present our project at Devoxx France. So if you are there and want to listen, then drop by the Ella Fitzgerald room at 10:40. The presentation will be...
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Bitcraze at Devoxx France
Most of last week was spent at the Devoxx France conference in Paris. Even though we didn’t have our talk until the end of the week, we hung around most of the time just developing and working. And of...
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NeoPixel driver for the Crazyflie’s STM32
A couple of weeks ago we found the NeoPixel ring from Adafruit at a local shop, we had to attach this neat board to our copter and see what cool effect we could make with it. The ring has 16 RGB LEDs...
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Crazyflie and NeoPixel ring continued
Continuing our post last week here’s a video showing the Adafruit NeoPixel ring and some of the effects that we did. The client code still needs some cleaning up, but the firmware is pushed here. The...
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Things happening in the community
It’s been a while since we summed up things happening in the community so here’s some of the things that are happening. There’s lots of more things, so if you think we are missing something, then post...
View ArticleDevoxx UK
Last year we presented the Crazyflie at Devoxx Belgium and last month we got a chance to do it again at Devoxx France (but in french). To complete our Devoxx tour we also accepted an invitation to...
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Flying robots and Devoxx presentation
This week we were planning on recording some FPV videos around the office with a new transmitter that gives us better range. But after battling with our USB capture device for a while we finally gave...
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Some crowdfunding campaigns
We are always looking for fun things to hack together using the Crazyflie. The last couple of weeks we contributed to two exciting open hardware campaigns on Indiegogo that we are hoping to get our...
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Welcome Miguel!
We are glad to announce that we got a reinforcement to our team. His name is Miguel Piteira Gomes and just got out of school where he studied mechanics. Now we can finally do other stuff then...
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Last week at Devoxx UK
Like we mentioned a couple of weeks ago we went to Devoxx UK last week exhibiting the Crazyflie. We got a chance to do lots of fun things, like flying the FPV quad in the keynote and also over the...
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The next generation – Crazyflie 2.0
It’s been more than a year now since the Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter was released and it’s been a great journey! It’s been great to see users all over the world assembling their Crazyflies and doing all...
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Crazyflie 2.0 based Master thesis for flying meshed sensor array
At Bitcraze we often get into discussions about crazy ideas that we would like to test out. Most of them are just that, crazy ideas, that are hard to realize or that we never have time for and the...
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Crazyflie 2.0: System Architecture
Early on in the Crazyflie 2.0 design we decided on using a double-MCU architecture. The main reason for this was to add Bluetooth low energy (BLE) to the platform to permit new use-cases like...
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