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Event-Based Data Logging
One crucial aspect of any research and development is to record and analyze data, which then can be used for quantifying performance, debugging strange behavior, or guide us in our decision making. We...
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AI-deck workshop by PULP lab
About a month ago we released the AIdeck 1.1, which has some slight upgrades and changes compared to the 1.0. Even though the AIdeck 1.1 is still in early access, we do see the number of support...
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Release 2021.03: Lighthouse is stable!
We are happy to anounce the availability of the 2021.03 release of the Crazyflie firmware and client! This release includes new binaries for the Crazyflie (2021.03), the Crazyflie client 2021.03 as...
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Transitioning back to Windows Development
When I was started my Robotics Master back in 2012, I remembered how frustrated I was at the time to setup my development environment in Windows for the C++ beginners course. My memory is a bit fuzzy...
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Successful emulation
Approximately two month ago we wrote a blog post presenting our planned master thesis. Time flies and we have now reached a sufficient state where the results are presentable and possible to use. We...
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Documenting the new Lighthouse Functionality
A few weeks ago we released version 2021-03 including the python library, Cfclient and the firmware. The biggest feature of that release was that we (finally) got the lighthouse positioning system out...
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Global semiconductor shortage and price updates
During the last year we, like many others, have had to deal with new challenges. Some of them have been personal while some have been work related. Although it’s been a challenge for us to distribute...
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Starting Development with the AI-deck
Ever since the AI-deck 1.x was released in early access, we’ve been excited to see so many users diving in and experimenting with it. The product is still in early access, where the hardware is deemed...
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Switching to Crazyflie-link-Cpp by default
A little while ago we made a blog post talking about the communication reliability, one part of this work did include an alternative CRTP link implementation for the Crazyflie lib. This week we will...
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Lighthouse Positioning Accuracy
Now that the Lighthouse deck is out of early access and we have made it easier to setup a lighthouse positioning system, we are currently at the next stage: showing how awesome it is! We feel that...
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Positioning System Overview
As you have noticed, we talk about the lighthouse positioning a lot these last couple of months ever since we got it out of early release. However, it is good to realize that it is not the only option...
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Crazyflie logging and parameters interface
Background In the past couple of weeks we have been busy trying to improve the development interface of the Crazyflie. We want to make developing with and for the platform a more pleasant experience....
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Robust Kalman Filter for Ultra-wideband Localization
This week we have a guest blog post from Wenda Zhao, Ph.D. candidate at the Dynamic System Lab (with Prof. Angela Schoellig), University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). Enjoy!...
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Rust, Wasm and the Crazyflie
For quite a while now, I have been very interested in the Rust programming language and since Jonas joined us we are two rust-enthusiast at Bitcraze. Rust is a relatively recent programming language...
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Ultra-Wideband Swarm Ranging
This week we have a guest blog post from Dr Feng Shan at School of Computer Science and EngineeringSoutheast University, China. Enjoy! It is possible to utilize tens and thousands of Crazyflies to...
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The Lighthouse Swarm bundle
If you haven’t visited our store in a while, you may have missed our new addition: the Lighthouse Swarm bundle! We’ve been working for some time now on improving the Lighthouse decks and its...
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Release 2021.06
We are happy to announce the availability of the 2021.06 release of the Crazyflie firmware and client! This release includes bugfixes related to flashing the Crazyflie and the Lighthouse deck and also...
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Sniffy Bug: A Fully Autonomous Swarm of Gas-Seeking Nano Quadcopters in...
This week we have a guest blog post from Bart Duisterhof and Prof. Guido de Croon from the MAVlab, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering from the Delft University of Technology. Enjoy! Tiny drones are...
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Creating the Lighthouse swarm bundle
Ever since we released the Lighthouse deck back in 2019, we’ve wanted to offer a bundle with the deck and the base stations. There’s multiple reasons for this, but the main reason was that we wanted...
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The beginnings of a test lab
We like to describe the Crazyflie as a versatile open source flying development platform. It is something that enables you to do cool stuff. It is not a finished, polished end product in its own. The...
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