What has our intern, Zhouxin, been up to?
This is it. The end of my internship. It feels strange to leave this unique office in a place called Malmö. My time spent here was more than just doing an assignment as part of a MSc. degree with the...
View ArticlePropeller quality issue
Who knew propellers would be that hard? Already from the very beginning with the Crazyflie 1.0, we had problems with very unbalanced propellers resulting in reduced flight performance. The fix at that...
View ArticleThe Active Marker deck is released
We have mentioned the Active Marker deck in an earlier blog post, and are now happy to announce that it has been released and is available in our store. Crazyflie with Active marker deck By changing...
View ArticleThe Home Lab
Many people in the world have now settled in the reality of working from home. We have also taken precautions ourselves by not go to our office as normal and only ship out packages a few times per...
View ArticleRunning Projects and Status Update
In this blog-post we wanted to give you guys an overview of our running projects and a general update of the status of things! We got settled in our home-labs and are working on many projects in...
View ArticleLighthouse V2 status update
The Lighthouse V2 implementation has been simmering away for a long time in the Bitcraze kitchen and in this blog post we will give you an update on the current status and what is remaining for a full...
View ArticleLearning-based Bias Correction for Accurate Ultra-wideband Localization of a...
Accurate indoor localization is a crucial enabling technology for many robotic applications, from warehouse management to monitoring tasks. Ultra-wideband (UWB) localization technology, in particular,...
View ArticleNew release: 2020.04
For the users that have subscribed to our github repository this does not come as an surprise, but for the rest, we have released a new version of our Crazyflie firmware (both STM and NRF) last week!...
View ArticleThe commander framework
Here is another blog post where we try to explain parts of the stabilizer framework of the Crazyflie. Last time, we talked about the controllers and state estimators as part of the stabilizer.c module...
View ArticleCrazyflies in the Robotarium
We have a guest blog post this week from Christopher Banks at Georgia Tech, where he tells us about their work with the Robotarium. Enjoy! Multi-Agent Aerial Robotics In the GRITS Lab we focus on...
View ArticleLatest Update on the AI deck
It has been a while since we have updated you all on the AI deck. The last full blogpost was in October, with some small updates here and there. It is not that we have not focused on it at all; on the...
View ArticleAI-deck is available in early access
The AI-deck is now available in our online store! Super-edge-computing is now possible on your Crazyflie thanks to the GAP8 IoT application processor from GreenWaves Technologies. GAP8 delivers over...
View ArticleRelease 2020.06 available for download
We’re happy to announce the availability of the 2020.06 release! The release includes the Crazyflie firmware, the Crazyflie NRF firmware and the python library (0.1.11). You can find the full package...
View ArticleIntro to Autonomous Robotics with the Crazyflie
Autonomous Robotics at UW Seattle Our team’s Crazyflie quadcopter was equipped with Bitcraze’s Optic Flow deck and Multi-ranger deck. A BH-1750 light intensity sensor was soldered to a Bitcraze...
View ArticleAI-deck Sees in Color
It has been about a month since the AI-deck became available in Early Access. Since then there are now quite a few of you that own an AI-deck yourself. A new development we would like to share: we...
View ArticleScaling Flying Modular Structures Based on Quadrotors
Modular robotics implies in general flexibility and versatility to robots. In theory, you could design a modular robot basically on the way you would want it to be, by simply adding or removing...
View ArticleNew Step-by-Step Guides
As you probably already know we have been wondering how to best handle our documentation and how to provide information to new Crazyflie starters as easy as possible, as you can read in our blogpost...
View ArticlePython client improvements
Hello everyone, this is Victor and I’ve spent another internship here at Bitcraze. You can read my blogpost from last year here https://www.bitcraze.io/2019/08/summer-internship/. I have learned a lot...
View ArticleFlow- and LPS-deck improvements in progress
Now that we are all back from our summer holiday, we are back on what we were set on doing a while ago already: fixing issues and stabilizing code. In the last two weeks we have been focusing on...
View ArticleCrazyflie radio communication
I am back from parental leave and during this time I tried not to think too much about Crazyflie-related things to get a little break. However, over time, while geeking around, I eventually ended-up...
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