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In Shenzhen at Seeedstudio
So, like we wrote last Monday, we are visiting Seeedstudio in Shenzhen, China. It’s been a great visit and we have gotten a chance to see both the Seeedstudio offices, the production and a bit of...
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Soon pre-orders will start shipping
It’s been a really hectic last couple of weeks and we are now very close to shipping the first batch of Crazyflies. It is a very big step for us so we would like to start by thanking you for your...
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First units received
Finally after more than 2 years of work on the kit, the first Crazyflie Nano Quadcopters are arriving at customers! It’s been a long journey with lots of ups and downs, and we are really happy that we...
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Crazyflies all over the world
It’s been an incredible week seeing people from all over the world getting their Crazyflies into the air!! We have seen videos of people doing crazy stuff we never thought of, 3D models of cases and...
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Another week of fixes and contributions
It’s been another week with lots of stuff going on. Shortly after the Crazyflies were delivered things really started to accelerate. Now there’s lots of cool stuff going on and we are trying to keep up...
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It’s like an avalanche…
Development is starting to accelerate and we are really having a hard time catching up on pull-requests and forum activity. It’s like an avalanche, once it is started, it is impossible to stop . We...
View ArticleNext batch in production
It’s been another busy week at Bitcraze. Unfortunately we are lagging a bit behind on pull-requests and such, but we are doing our best to catch up. Also development taking place in the forum has...
View ArticleLot’s of things happening
It’s been yet another week with lot’s of ideas, contributions and discussions. Here’s some of the things we’ve seen the last week: The propeller test is getting even better thanks to DesTinY We have...
View ArticleBitcraze VM 0.3
There’s an updated version of the Bitcraze virtual machine out. The VM has all the pre-requisites for using the Crazyflie/Crazyradio and also the full development environment for our projects. Here’s a...
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Motor mount improvement
Thanks to some of the motor mount feedback we have now managed to improve the motor mount a bit. It now has a longer extruded cylinder and a larger stop to prevent the motor form popping out when...
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The Crazyflie is back in stock
The Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter kits, the Crazyradio and all of the spare parts are now back in stock at Seeedstudio. Like we mentioned before there’s been some changes since the last batch. We have...
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Raspberry Pi pre-configured SD-card image
In order for users to be able to pilot the Crazyflie from platforms without a graphical user interface there’s now a headless client in the repository named cfheadless. It’s intended to be run the...
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The Crazyflie and Android
Last year we quickly hacked together a client for Android to show that it was technically possible to use the Crazyflie/Crazyradio on the platform. It worked, but it wasn’t very good. After that not...
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Crazyflie KiCad project released
We finally got the time to clean-up the Crazyflie kicad project enough to make it publicly available. It is not in a perfect shape but should be good enough to use and learn from. It’s a 4 layer board...
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Crazyflie distributors
We are now all back from vacation, restarting the work on Bitcraze stuff. We are looking forward to play with the Leap Motion we just received… The development is still going forward. Among other...
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Flying the Crazyflie with Leap Motion
The first time we saw the video for the Leap Motion we instantly thought “Wow, we have to fly the Crazyflie with this!”. So finally last week a fresh Leap Motion landed on our desk and we went to work....
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Autopilot using Kinect and a PC
For the last couple of years (!) we have been discussing on and off about automatically flying the Crazyflie from a PC using OpenCV and a camera. We did a try a while ago using a PS3 Eye camera that...
View ArticleCommunity development
This Monday post we are devoting to the community development and we will try to give a short summary of what is going on there. We recently haven’t our selves had that much time to help out with this...
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Finally a 3D printer!
We have been in need of a 3D printer for a while now, in order to print parts designed by community members and also prototype new parts. After talking about it for ages we finally got around to buying...
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Stock is getting low
Our products at the Seeedstudio Bazaar are almost out of stock. Currently there are still some 10-DOF bundles in the Seeedstudio US warehouse, but the 6-DOF is old out. Below is the estimations for...
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