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Faires and Kinect problems
This weekend we went to the maker weekend at Hx in Helsingborg and showed off the Crazyflie 2.0 flying with the Kinect. It’s an awesome demo for fairs since it flies by itself and looks pretty good....
View ArticleGroup development
For a background on the “How we work” category, see Self organizing We have done a session in the company on group development. We based our discussions on the IMGD model by Susan Wheelan...
View ArticleMoving to Python 3
During the last week we’ve taken a big step, moving to Python 3! The reason for the move is that Python 3 is becoming broadly adopted and it has more features that we want to make use of. Also 3 >...
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CI server and builder image
We have decided to use Travis for continuous integration builds of our open source repositories. Travis is automatically building the code on all branches and pull requests, which gives all developers...
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Getting ready for Maker Faire New York
Last week and this week is busy with preparations for the New York and Berlin maker faires. Since we will be in the Seeedstudio booth we don’t have the same space as at the Bay Area Maker Faire, so we...
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Maker faires, conference and first Bitcraze meetup in Berlin
This year we decided to save some time and split up for the last two Maker Faires. So last weekend Tobias and Christopher went to the Maker Faire in New York. They had a great but hectic time. More...
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Two Maker Faires
Marcus and Arnaud have packed up and left the Berlin Maker Faire after two hectic days. and last weekend Tobias and I were at Maker Fair New York. It’s a lot of fun showing the Crazyflie, meeting...
View ArticleLocal positioning system measurements
Last Thursday we went to LTH (University of Lund), to the Robotics department, to make some measurements on the ultra wide band (UWB) positioning system we are working on. The idea was to use one of...
View ArticleRole contracts
There are a lot of things we need to keep track of in Bitcraze, such as customer support, production, book keeping, planing for the future, improving how we work, our servers, forum, the community,...
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Crazyflie and Lua
Last week I was at Lua Workshop 2015 in Stockholm, it was a very interesting conference with lots of interesting people. I also had the opportunity to see the office of King, the host for the workshop,...
View ArticleSeeedStudio visit at Bitcraze
Seeedstudio is our manufacturer and our main distributor. Last week Mandy from Seeedstudio came and visited us after being at Maker faire Rome. She did a very interesting talk at Minc, our incubator,...
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Moved to The Ground
The last week has been really busy here at Bitcraze. We are working on regular bugfixes, support and new Decks to be release as soon as possible. But at the same time, we have moved our office in a new...
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Team pomodoro
We are experimenting with pomodoro inspired techniques (http://pomodorotechnique.com/) in the team. What we do is that we are doing team pomodoros where we work focused for 25 minutes, without...
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New Decks comming soon
Lately we have been busy finalizing new Decks. We have a pretty long list of what we want to release and the first four to come are the bigquad deck, the Buzzer deck, Wifi (ESP8266) deck and a GPS...
View ArticleServer down time
On Thursday 2015-11-12 our web-servers were down for a few hours. Some unexpected updates in our hosing service made our storage solution stop. Unfortunately we had to restore our data from the latest...
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Progress on Local positioning
A we wrote before, we are working on a Ultra-Wide-Band-based local positioning system for the Crazyflie. We are doing slow progress but progress anyway and we wanted to do a small update on it. We are...
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The dashing dashboard
We have a dashboard (aka radiator) based on dashing in the office. The purpose of the dashboard is to drive the team focus and encourage us to work on the most important tasks at hand. For instance, we...
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New website in progress
Some of you might have noticed that the website is getting a make-over which we are very happy about. Me and Kristoffer have teamed-up and first and foremost replaced the old wordpress theme with an...
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Battery issues and Crazyflie 2.0 out of stock
It’s that time of year again, time for Christmas shopping. This year we thought that we would plan ahead and produce more units before Christmas to meet the demand. It was a great plan, but there were...
View ArticleNew decks heading into production
After a hectic week we’re finally ready to put some new decks into production! A couple of months ago we selected 4 deck prototypes to try to bring to production before Christmas: WiFi, GPS, BigQuad...
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