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Bitcraze at Devoxx France
Most of last week was spent at the Devoxx France conference in Paris. Even though we didn’t have our talk until the end of the week, we hung around most of the time just developing and working. And of...
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NeoPixel driver for the Crazyflie’s STM32
A couple of weeks ago we found the NeoPixel ring from Adafruit at a local shop, we had to attach this neat board to our copter and see what cool effect we could make with it. The ring has 16 RGB LEDs...
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Crazyflie and NeoPixel ring continued
Continuing our post last week here’s a video showing the Adafruit NeoPixel ring and some of the effects that we did. The client code still needs some cleaning up, but the firmware is pushed here. The...
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Things happening in the community
It’s been a while since we summed up things happening in the community so here’s some of the things that are happening. There’s lots of more things, so if you think we are missing something, then post...
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Last week at Devoxx UK
Like we mentioned a couple of weeks ago we went to Devoxx UK last week exhibiting the Crazyflie. We got a chance to do lots of fun things, like flying the FPV quad in the keynote and also over the...
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The next generation – Crazyflie 2.0
It’s been more than a year now since the Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter was released and it’s been a great journey! It’s been great to see users all over the world assembling their Crazyflies and doing all...
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Crazyflie 2.0 based Master thesis for flying meshed sensor array
At Bitcraze we often get into discussions about crazy ideas that we would like to test out. Most of them are just that, crazy ideas, that are hard to realize or that we never have time for and the...
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Crazyflie 2.0 prototype: From package to flying in 8 hours
When working with hardware there’s always a very intensive phase when you do the initial design, find the correct parts and finally order your prototype. Then you sit around waiting for a month or two...
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Crazyflie 2.0 photos and video
With the help of our new intern Mattias we finally got around to shooting a short video and taking photos of the Crazyflie 2.0 prototypes. We are really excited to finally show the new version and we...
View ArticleCrazyflie 2.0 debug-adapter board
While designing the Crazyflie 2.0 one of our focuses has been enhancing the current Crazyflie functionality. As a flying development kit the current Crazyflie already has a JTAG debug port that allows...
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Crazyflie 2.0 expansion port
One feature of the new Crazyflie 2.0 that we are especially happy about is the new expansion port. We have attached a lot of hardware to the current Crazyflie and we have also seen lots of users...
View ArticleNew Crazyradio PA
As we said in previous post, with Crazyflie 2.0 one of the focus has been on enhancing the current Crazyflie platform. The radio range and power is one of these things that is good enough on the...
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Crazyflie 2.0: Qi inductive charging expansion
One of the boards that we have been working on is an inductive charging expansion for the Crazyflie 2.0. Some of you might remember way back when we did an inductive charging hack for the Crazyflie....
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Crazyflie 2.0: LED-ring expansion
A while ago we did a hack where we attached a NeoPixel ring to a Crazyflie. It was just a quick hack to show the concept, but we really liked the results. So we added some more firmware to easily be...
View ArticleCrazyflie 2.0: Radio range test
As you might already know we have added a 20dBm RF amplifier to the Crazyflie 2.0 as well as to the Crazyradio PA. We have had high hopes of getting a more stable link and much better range with this....
View ArticleHard at work preparing for the pre-order
The last couple of weeks we have been spent on finishing the testing of the hardware and preparing lots of practical things for the production of the new Crazyflie 2.0. With almost all the hardware...
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Crazyflie 2.0 pre-order teaser
Finally it’s getting really close and we are very excited to say that the pre-order of the Crazyflie 2.0 will start this week! We will post more details about it during the week, until then here’s a...
View ArticleThe Crazyflie 2.0 pre-order has started!
We are really happy to announce that we are starting the pre-order for the Crazyflie 2.0 today! After spending nearly 10 months doing development, we have reached a point where we are very happy with...
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Crazyflie 2.0: The tiny modular quadcopter
This weekend we spent at the Maker Faire in Rome and got to meet lots of fellow geeks and makers. Even though it was busy times at the Bitcraze booth, we got a chance to walk around a bit and see other...
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Crazyflie 2.0 expansion board template
First of all, thanks to everyone that helped us out during the pre-order. Today we are finishing the last details and tomorrow Seeedstudio will launch the production of the first Crazyflie 2.0 batch!...
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