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Crazyflie 2.0 back in stock
We are happy to announce that the Crazyflie 2.0 is back in stock at our main distributor Seeed. Head over to the on line shop and buy your last minute Christmas presents! We are looking forward to...
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“Getting started” with Christmas
If you are one of the lucky ones getting a Crazyflie for Christmas we are happy to tell you there is a new and fresh “getting started” guide to help you get going :-). Before going on holiday me and...
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Crazyflie autonomous with DWM1000-based local positioning system
We are currently working on a local positioning system based on ultra wide band decawave DWM1000 modules for the Crazyflie. We have already written a couple of times about it earlier, and in this post...
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The deck API: run your code in Crazyflie 2.0
First of all, happy new year on behalf of the Bitcraze team. In this post we would like to talk about the Deck API, but first a little bit of background. Crazyflie and pretty much all we do is...
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Open website
There has been much discussion at bitcraze on where to put informations, forum or website. The website is more pretty and more accessible but it can only be updated by us. The wiki can be updated by...
View ArticleLocal positioning system alpha program launch
As we have written before we are working on a DWM100-based ultra-wide-band local positioning system, we are making good progress and are getting ready to ship alpha systems. We hope to be able to ship...
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Bitcraze at FOSDEM 16 and flying pixel
At the end of the week Marcus and I are going at the FOSDEM 16 conference in Brussels. There we will meet Fred, who is the main community developer and maintainer of the Crazyflie Android app. If you...
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New front page and Fosdem
So as usual at Bitcraze it’s been a busy week. We have made a complete makeover of the front page of our website. The main goal has been to communicate what Bitcraze and the Crazyflie is about, in an...
View ArticleProducing the Alpha LPS DWM1000 boards
Last week and today we have been busy at making the first DWM1000-based LPS system we are currently developing. As usual with hardware and production nothing goes according to plan. We sometime envy...
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Community request
Greetings all community members! This week we have a couple of requests that we hope you can help out with. First of all we would love to hear about all the cool projects you are using the Crazyflie...
View ArticleCrazyflie 2.0 drones used in amazing TED talk
If you haven’t watched it already, make sure to watch the TED talk “Raffaello D’Andrea: Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future”! We are super excited to see that they use the Crazyflie 2.0...
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New development tool – the Toolbelt
During the autumn we introduced the docker based builder images that are used for builds on the CI server. They make sure the build environment is well known and reproducible which is key on the build...
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BigQuad deck just released as early access hardware
Early Access For a long time now we have discussed the BigQuad deck which basically can transform your Crazyflie 2.0 into a bigger quad by attaching it to a bigger frame. The first simple prototype we...
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Improved altitude hold
We have stared to look at what is needed to make the Crazyflie position aware and to integrate the upcoming positioning system. The rough idea is to add a position estimation module to the firmware of...
View ArticlePerching at Stanford using the Bitcraze Crazyflie
Last week we where happy to learn that engineers at Stanford’s Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab have been using the Crazyflie 2.0 as a prototyping tool when creating the robot SCAMP –...
View ArticleUpdate on Local Positioning System
As we already talked before in a couple of post, we are currently developping a local positioning system for the Crazyflie based on ultra-wide-band radio DWM1000. This is one of our main focus...
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New projects on hackster.io
Last week we had some great contributions at our hackster.io platform page that you really should check out. The first project is made by our good friend Fred that created a tutorial about how to do a...
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Crazyflie mobile clients
Historically the main way to control a Crazyflie has been by using a computer running a Crazyflie client and communicating with a Crazyradio (PA). However since very early we have made an Android...
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New release of the python Crazyflie client
We have just released a new version 2016.04.1 of the Crazyflie client. The biggest change is actually not so visible but very important: we have now separated the GUI client from the Crazyflie lib. The...
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Crazyflie Windows and Android clients
Crazyflie 2.0 already has two mobile clients, one for Android maintained by Fred and the iPhone client. Now we officially have a new one on development: the Windows client. Theseankelly, from the...
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