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Summer “internship”
Hello everyone, I’m Victor and you probably haven’t heard of me yet but I’ve got the awesome opportunity to spend some weeks during this summer working at Bitcraze. Working… Well, I’ve spent the...
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The Active marker deck
We have briefly mentioned the Active marker deck earlier in our blog and in this post we will describe how it works and what it is all about. The Active marker deck is a result of our collaboration...
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Excited about IMAV 2019
The Crazyflie Bolt and the Crazyflie 2.1 with the lighthouse deck are coming to Madrid! Only one week away until the start of the big Bitcraze Conference frenzy, with the first stop… Madrid! We will...
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New release is out, 2019.09
We are happy to announce that we have made new official releases of a number of our software components. The name of the release is 2019.09 and we have outlined the main changes below....
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Sneak peak of the AI-deck
As pointed out in Daniele’s blog post about the PULP-DroNet we are collaborating on a AI-deck built around the new GAP8 RISC-V multi-core MCU. In the blog post you can find all the details around...
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Learning to Seek: autonomous source seeking using deep reinforcement learning...
CrazyFlies are great for indoor applications, thanks to their maneuverability and ubiquitous character. Its small size, however, limits sensor quality and compute capability. In our recent work we...
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App layer and P2P communication
Over time the scope of Crazyflie has changed a lot. At first, Crazyflie was “just flying” with the only possible control was attitude (roll, pitch, yaw) and thrust setpoint sent from the Radio. Soon...
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Enabling Swarm Exploration
For the last four years of doing my PhD at the TU Delft and the MAVlab, we were determined to figure out how to make a swarm/group of tiny quadcopters fly through and explore an unknown indoor...
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IROS and Lighthouse yaw
This week we are exhibiting at IROS in Macau. We are running our fully autonomous demo based on the Lighthouse positioning technology and charging pads. We also have brought some prototypes to show,...
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Making plans for the Crazyflie app-layer
We talked about it in a previous post, it is more than time to implement a higher abstraction layer for the Crazyflie firmware to make it easy to implement custom automations and programs on top of...
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Designing DroneChi
This week we have a guest blog post from Joseph La Delfa. DroneChi is a Human Drone interaction experience that uses the Qualisys motion capture system that enables the Crazyflie to react to movements...
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Crazyflie Bolt in store
The Crazyflie Bolt control board After a couple of delays we are happy to announce the Crazyflie Bolt is now stocked and ready to ship out. For those of you that are new to the Bolt, it is basically a...
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Production Tests
We are currently finishing production test design for a couple of expansion decks and we figured we never wrote about it and about the more general board production process. In this blog post we...
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Crazyflie Bolt: FPV meets Autonomy
I started working with the Crazyflie 2.0 in 2015. I was interested in learning how to program a quadcopter, and the open-source nature of the Crazyflie’s hardware and software was the perfect...
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State estimation: To be or not to be!
How does a Crazyflie manage to fly and stay in the air in the first place? Many of us tend to take this for granted as much research tend to happen on the application level. Although we try to make...
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Out of Control
Two weeks ago, we had a blogpost about the state estimators that are available within the Crazyflie. So once the Crazyflie knows where it is, it would need to be determined where it wants to go, by...
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New release: 2020.02
When there is a possibility to name a release with only two’s and zero’s one has to take that opportunity right! Adding to that, it was about time to make a new release, and there is actually another...
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Crazyradio VS BLE
The Crazyflie supports wireless communication using both the Crazyradio PA and BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_Low_Energy). BLE is used with the mobile phone apps...
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Crazyflie flying with Lighthouse V2!
We are happy to announce that we have gotten Crazyflie 2 to fly autonomously using the Lighthouse deck and Lighthouse V2 base-stations. This was a very requested features, and while this is not stable...
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Drawing with the Crazyflie
There has been some work done earlier to use the Crazyflie for generating images, for instance the dot-drawing by Paul Kry and light painting. I wanted to see if it is possible to put a brush or pen...
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