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Our Intern Marios’ Summer work on Swarms
Hello world, you had probably seen me from the last blog post when I first arrived. I spent this summer working here in Malmö and I can definitely say that it was one great, educative and fun...
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Using the AI deck for CRTP over WiFi (via CPX)
Before the summer vacations, I had the opportunity to spend some time working on AI deck improvements (blog post). One of the goals I set was to get CRTP over WiFi working, and try to fix issues along...
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Towards Autonomous Flight on Nano-Drones with Multi-zone Depth Sensors
This weeks guest blog post is from Hanna Müller, Vlad Niculescu and Tommaso Polonelli, who are working with Luca Benini at the Integrated Systems Lab and Michele Magno at the Center for Project-Based...
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New release: 2022.09
A new release of the Crazyflie firmware, client and library is out! There’s lots of new stuff included, below is a summary of the largest changes: Full support for two more more Lighthouse base...
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IMAV 2022: NanoQuadcopter challenge and more!
Last week we went on a nice trip to Delft, The Netherlands to attend the 22th International Mico Aerial Vehicle Conference and Competition, this time organized by the MAVlab of the TU Delft. Me (Kim),...
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Crazyswarm2 development
As you probably noticed already, this summer I experimented with ROS2 and connecting the Crazyflie with multi-ranger to several mapping and navigation nodes (see this and this blogpost). First I...
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Thrust upgrade kit for the Crazyflie 2.1
Propellers of high quality and good balance has not been easy to find for drones in the Crazyflie size. Not that long ago HQ-prop released a propeller, 51MMX2GR-1MM-PC, with 51mm in diameter (2 inch)...
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We’re in Japan !
I already talked about it here and there, but this day finally came: the whole company is in Japan !Kimberly travelled first, to account for jetlag, meet with some people, and attend ROScon. It was...
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The IROS 2022 demo
IROS in Kyoto is over and all Bitcrazers are finally back in Sweden again. We had a really good time in Japan and enjoyed all the interesting discussions we had with all of you, thanks! In this blog...
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New Crazyradio and new communication architecture
The communication protocols between a PC, a Crazyradio and a Crazyflie are critical parts of the Crazyflie ecosystem, they allow to communicate with and control the Crazyflies in real time. These...
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FPV deck hack
Hey, Victor here! I’ve been flying FPV drones for some time and while I usually fly bigger drones (3-5 inch props) I have always wanted to put an analog camera on the Crazyflie to fly it in FPV. So, a...
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IROS 2022: Crazyflie’s adventures in Robotic Research
Announcement: We will have a townhall meeting this Wednesday (7th of December) about Crazyradio 2.0 and the ideas about the new com-stack at 15:00 (3 pm) CET. Please follow the discussion here for...
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Victor’s thesis & leave
Hey, Victor here! As some of you may know, I’ve worked at Bitcraze for two summers (2019, 2020), and I did my Bachelor’s thesis here during the spring this year. While we mentioned shortly that I...
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Merry Christmas!
Santa is soon to be knocking on the door, hopefully with one or two exciting toys (with blinking LEDs) for us geeky people! There will not be a Christmas video in the Bitcraze gift this year, instead...
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The Big Loco Test Show
This year, the traditional Christmas video was overtaken by a big project that we had at the end of November: creating a test show with the help of CollMot. First, a little context: CollMot is a show...
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From Crazyflies to “Crazybats”
This week’s guest blogpost is from Frederike Dümbgen presenting her latest work from her PhD project at the Laboratory of Audiovisual Communications (LCAV), EPFL, and is currently a Postdoc at the...
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Hej, I am Hanna :)
My name is Hanna, and I just started as an intern at Bitcraze. However, it is not my first time working with a drone or even the Crazyflie, so I’ll tell you a bit about how I ended up here. The first...
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Adding an estimator or controller
A common task with the Crazyflie is to add a new controller or estimator. As we get some questions on how to do this, we will outline the process in this post. We will show how to add a custom...
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Crazyflie in research – and in video
It’s time for a new compilation video about how the Crazyflie is used in research ! The last one featured already a lot of awesome work, but a lot happened since then, both in research and at...
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The 2023.02 release is out
We’re happy to announce that the 2023.02 release is available for download! The main new features of this release are: Out of tree controllers We have made it easier to add a new controller to the...
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