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Drones in the dance performance “Flying bodies across the fields”
This week’s guest blogpost is from Florian Goralsky from Bok o Bok about their dance piece with multiple Crazyflies. Enjoy! Flying bodies across the fields is a contemporary dance piece for four...
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Monthly Developer Meetings and ICRA 2023
We are excited to announce that we will be having developer meetings on first Wednesdays of every month! Additionally, we are thrilled to be present in person at ICRA 2023 in London. During the same...
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New Loco TDoA outlier filter
In this blog post we will take a look at the new Loco positioning TDoA outlier filter, but first a couple of announcements. Announcements Crazyradio PA out of stock Some of you may have noticed that...
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Come move with drones in beautiful, curious, and provocative ways at the...
Today, our guest Airi Lampinen from Stockholm University is presenting the second Drone Arena Challenge. Enjoy! Welcome to the second Drone Arena Challenge, a one-of-a-kind interactive experience with...
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Safety and the Brushless
It is easy to forget that the reason why it is nice to develop for the Crazyflie is because it weighs only about 30 grams. In case something goes wrong with your script or there is a fly-away, you can...
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Modifying a thrust stand for small motors
When designing flying robots like drones it is important to be able to benchmark and test the propulsion system which in this case is a speed controller, motor and propeller. As we at Bitcraze are...
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ICRA 2023
As mentioned in a previous blog post, we have a both at ICRA in London this week. If you are there too, come and visit us in booth H10 and tell us what you are working on! Barbara and Arnaud is...
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New release, 2023.06
We’re happy to announce that there is a new release of the software for the Crazyflie ecosystem! The new release is called 2023.06 and is available for download on github or through the python client....
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ICRA 2023: Crazyflie’s adventures in Robotic Research
As you may have noticed from the recent blog posts, we were very excited about ICRA London 2023! And it seems that we had every right to be, as this conference had the highest number of Crazyflie...
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New 350mA Li-Po on the way
We are happy to announce that we are working on a new upgrade battery for the Crazyflies! It will soon hit production and hopefully, keeping our fingers crossed, it will arrive in our stock in early...
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TU Delft Science Centre Swarming Lab
Today, Lennart Bult from Emergent Swarns presents us with this project of a 24/7 swarming demo. Enjoy! Over the last few months our team has been working on creating a 24/7 swarming demo. Initially...
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The infinite flight
When the Crazyflie was created the intended use case was manual flight with one drone. Over the years we have added support for positioning, swarms, autonomous flight and all sorts of nice features,...
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High school students learn about electrical engineering with the Crazyflie
This early summer my research group (Center for Project-Based Learning at ETH Zürich) was in charge of a special week – high school students from all over Switzerland (actually even the world, they...
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An overview of our repositories
The Bitcraze organization page on github contains some 60+ repositories and if you are looking for a specific piece of code it might be hard to know where to find it. In this blog post we will try to...
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AMSwarm: An Alternating Minimization Approach for Safe Motion Planning of...
Today, Vivek Adajania from Learning Systems and Robotics lab write about a project for a safe motion planning of Crazyflie swarm that was published at ICRA 2023. Enjoy! Motivation Quadrotor swarms...
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New Crazyflie propeller 47-17
Last week our brand new 47-17 (47mm diameter, 17mm pitch) Crazyflie 2.X propeller became available in black and green in the shop! It is a custom designed propeller for the 0.8mm shaft, 7×16 coreless...
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The python client and Qt6
The python client is based on Qt and we have been using version 5 so far. Qt5 has been replaced by Qt6 quite some time ago and as Qt5 is not really maintained any more, we have been looking at...
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Rust at Bitcraze
Lately we have been thinking about and using the Rust programming language more at Bitcraze. In this blog post we will talk a bit about our current use, current experiments and potentially future use...
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Discussion – How to handle the increasing complexity of the expansion decks
For this months developer meeting we will be discussing the increasing complexity of the deck subsystem, talking about the challenges we see moving forward as well as discussing some possible...
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Tired of crashing? Use Open Gimbal!
Today, Suryansh Sharma from TU Delft presents the open-source Gimbal they devised. Enjoy! Crazyflies (and other drones in this weight class) are extremely fun to fly and prototype with! But if you are...
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