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The Crazyflie 2.1 is here!
The new Crazyflie 2.1 The Crazyflie 2.0 was released almost 4 years ago now. When we released it we wanted to avoid limiting our users in hardware. We over-designed it with lots of features and power...
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Using the CF2 for gas source localization and mapping
This week we have a guest blog post from Javier Burgués. Enjoy! I would like to introduce you a rather unknown application of the CrazyFlie 2.0 (CF2): chemical sensing. Due to its small form-factor,...
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Release of the Lighthouse deck early access
We have just released the Crazyflie Lighthouse deck as Early Access! It is now available in our web store. The lighthouse deck allows the Crazyflie to estimate its position using the HTC Vive tracking...
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Light painting with Crazyflie and the Lighthouse deck
Last week we blogged about the early release version of the lighthouse deck and showed a nice push-around demo of the Crazyflies using the Vive controller. Now we wanted to push the system even...
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Drawing images with Crazyflie and Bitcraze at ICRA 2019
Last week we posted about painting with the Lighthouse deck. This week we continue on the same track but add a new dimension, all in our “let’s try this crazy idea” spirit. So last Friday, after...
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The Crazyflie MoCap marker deck is available
Today we received a bunch of MoCap marker decks which means they are now available in our shop. This is a handy deck for those that flies in a motion capture system as it is easy to create different...
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Innovation week and first preparations for ICRA 2019
We attended the Innovation Week at Lund University on Thursday last week. Primarily we wanted to talk to students and possibly find future colleagues (yes, we are hiring) but it was also a good...
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The active marker deck for MoCap systems
As part of our collaboration with Qualisys we are helping them developing an active marker deck for their motion capture cameras. One of the major benefits with an active marker deck is that it can...
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Work on ICRA 2019 demo
As mentioned earlier, we will be attending ICRA 2019 and have started to work on the demo that we will run in our booth. The main features we are going to show this time are the Lighthouse positioning...
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PULP-DroNet: open source and open hardware artificial intelligence for fully...
Hi everyone, here at the Integrated and System Laboratory of the ETH Zürich, we have been working on an exciting project: PULP-DroNet.Our vision is to enable artificial intelligence-based autonomous...
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Sneak peak of what’s coming at ICRA 2019
Only a week left until we stand in our ICRA booth in Montreal and give you a gimps of what we do here at Bitcraze. As we have been writing about earlier we are aiming to run a fully automated demo. We...
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Back from ICRA 2019
3 of us where at ICRA 2019 in Montreal last week, where we met a lot of interesting people and a lot of Crazyflie users. Thanks a lot to everyone that drop by our booth, and for the ones that missed...
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Making a radio test-bench for Crazyflie2
While running our ICRA demo, we came across a bug in the Crazyflie python-lib radio handling, limiting the number of Crazyflie that could be controlled using one Crazyradio PA. Communication with many...
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Communication improvements
Many of our users are flying larger and larger swarms and we’ve been getting some feedback that there’s communication issues when connecting to many Crazyflies. So during the last weeks we’ve been...
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The RZR becomes the Bolt
We have now come to a the point were we will start manufacturing of the Crazyflie Bolt, Formally known as the RZR. You might wonder why we changed the name… Well the RZR more implies it is a Racer...
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Playing with Crazyflie 2.1 choreography with Lighthouse positioning
We have recently moved to a new bigger office. With the summer arriving in Sweden, it was time to organize a small move-in after-work party with friends and family. For the occasion we wanted to play...
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Summer 2019 Wrap Up
Summer is here and temperatures are rising. Since many of us will be on holidays, we will focus this quarter on a special summer clean up! See here what we are working on: Fixing issues: This time we...
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Synchronous swarm example
Two weeks ago we posted about the demo we did for our new office move-in party. There has been multiple requests to share the script but unfortunately this is a hacked old script that is not going to...
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Improving Documentation
Improving the flow of information Our usual blog posts usually consists of the awesome new products and demos that we make here at Bitcraze, but now we will talk about… documentation! Alright alright,...
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Creating trajectories for the High-level Commander with Bezier curves
The High-level Commander has been part of the Crazyflie firmware since the 2018.10 release. In combination with a positioning system, it can fly the Crazyflie along a trajectory that is either defined...
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