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Back from vacation
Starting this week we’re all back at our desks and after getting some time off, recharging our batteries, we’re slowly getting up to speed again. The summer has been spent on everything from improving...
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Firmware and dwm1000 nodes
DWM1000 nodes Last hacking-Friday we have had some time to put together the DWM1000 boards we ordered during the summer. The DWM1000 from Decawave is an ultra-wide-band ieee802.15.4 radio transceiver...
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cfclient 2015.08 released
A new version of the Crazyflie PC Python client has been released, version 2015.08. It’s been a while since the last release of the client so there’s a long list of changes, including lots of fixed...
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Faires and Kinect problems
This weekend we went to the maker weekend at Hx in Helsingborg and showed off the Crazyflie 2.0 flying with the Kinect. It’s an awesome demo for fairs since it flies by itself and looks pretty good....
View ArticleMoving to Python 3
During the last week we’ve taken a big step, moving to Python 3! The reason for the move is that Python 3 is becoming broadly adopted and it has more features that we want to make use of. Also 3 >...
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CI server and builder image
We have decided to use Travis for continuous integration builds of our open source repositories. Travis is automatically building the code on all branches and pull requests, which gives all developers...
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Getting ready for Maker Faire New York
Last week and this week is busy with preparations for the New York and Berlin maker faires. Since we will be in the Seeedstudio booth we don’t have the same space as at the Bay Area Maker Faire, so we...
View ArticleLocal positioning system measurements
Last Thursday we went to LTH (University of Lund), to the Robotics department, to make some measurements on the ultra wide band (UWB) positioning system we are working on. The idea was to use one of...
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Crazyflie and Lua
Last week I was at Lua Workshop 2015 in Stockholm, it was a very interesting conference with lots of interesting people. I also had the opportunity to see the office of King, the host for the workshop,...
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New Decks comming soon
Lately we have been busy finalizing new Decks. We have a pretty long list of what we want to release and the first four to come are the bigquad deck, the Buzzer deck, Wifi (ESP8266) deck and a GPS...
View ArticleNew decks heading into production
After a hectic week we’re finally ready to put some new decks into production! A couple of months ago we selected 4 deck prototypes to try to bring to production before Christmas: WiFi, GPS, BigQuad...
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“Getting started” with Christmas
If you are one of the lucky ones getting a Crazyflie for Christmas we are happy to tell you there is a new and fresh “getting started” guide to help you get going :-). Before going on holiday me and...
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Crazyflie autonomous with DWM1000-based local positioning system
We are currently working on a local positioning system based on ultra wide band decawave DWM1000 modules for the Crazyflie. We have already written a couple of times about it earlier, and in this post...
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The deck API: run your code in Crazyflie 2.0
First of all, happy new year on behalf of the Bitcraze team. In this post we would like to talk about the Deck API, but first a little bit of background. Crazyflie and pretty much all we do is...
View ArticleLocal positioning system alpha program launch
As we have written before we are working on a DWM100-based ultra-wide-band local positioning system, we are making good progress and are getting ready to ship alpha systems. We hope to be able to ship...
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Bitcraze at FOSDEM 16 and flying pixel
At the end of the week Marcus and I are going at the FOSDEM 16 conference in Brussels. There we will meet Fred, who is the main community developer and maintainer of the Crazyflie Android app. If you...
View ArticleProducing the Alpha LPS DWM1000 boards
Last week and today we have been busy at making the first DWM1000-based LPS system we are currently developing. As usual with hardware and production nothing goes according to plan. We sometime envy...
View ArticleCrazyflie 2.0 drones used in amazing TED talk
If you haven’t watched it already, make sure to watch the TED talk “Raffaello D’Andrea: Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future”! We are super excited to see that they use the Crazyflie 2.0...
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New development tool – the Toolbelt
During the autumn we introduced the docker based builder images that are used for builds on the CI server. They make sure the build environment is well known and reproducible which is key on the build...
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BigQuad deck just released as early access hardware
Early Access For a long time now we have discussed the BigQuad deck which basically can transform your Crazyflie 2.0 into a bigger quad by attaching it to a bigger frame. The first simple prototype we...
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