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Lets meet at Maker Faire Berlin!
The Maker Faire Berlin is coming up and we are starting to get ready for showtime! The last couple of weeks has been really busy getting ready for the Maker Faire Berlin. The plan is to show multiple...
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Crazyflie 2.0 tested in wind-tunnel at Maker Faire Berlin 2016
We are just back from the Maker Faire Berlin where we have met lot of interesting people and shown the loco positioning system. We have calculated that Crazyflie 2.0 has flown for more than 91% of the...
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Bitcraze demo at Maker Faire Berlin 2016
One week ago we where presenting Crazyflie 2.0 and the Loco Positioning System at Maker Faire Berlin 2016. It was a lot of fun being there, we enjoyed it very much, and it also required a couple of...
View ArticleControlling Crazyflie with the Specktr midi glove at Maker Faire Berlin 2016
We have always been interested in controlling Crazyflie with various devices. For example we had the Leap Motion that enabled us to control the Crazyflie with our bare hand. Then we hacked a glove for...
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Micro SD-card support
The logging subsystem of the Crazyflie 2.0 is fairly flexible and easy to use, but despite its nice properties it may still be limiting in some scenarios. Two areas where it is lacking are offline- and...
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Loco positioning system update: Kalman, controller and TDMA
Loco positioning system is still in Early access which means that things are moving fast. Since the release of the loco positioning system a Kalman filter has been contributed by Mike Hammer at ETH...
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Going to Öredev and updating the forum
Bitcraze forum We have been discussing the information architecture on the Bitcraze forum after getting some really good feedback from Fred (derf) one of our forum members. Before starting to make...
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Spontaneous collaboration at Øredev
We attended Øredev last week and showed off our demo with an autonomous Crazyflie with a light and sound show. It was the same demo as we had in Maker Faire Berlin earlier this autumn that we wrote...
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Disrupted week
Last week was interrupted, disrupted and generally chopped up as a few of us had to stay home fighting germs and viruses. Today all of us were present again and hopefully we will all be well this week...
View ArticleFirst Crazyflie swarm flying with TDoA in Loco Positioning Sytem
Last week we reached a milestone for our Loco Positioning System: we got 5 Crazyflie 2.0 to fly in a swarm with Time Difference of Arrival measurements. This is a great step closer to making the LPS...
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VL53L0x expansion deck
Most of the time we have a few prototypes lying around that we’re working more or less on. Sometimes some of these make it into a product if we feel that they might be useful or fun for the community,...
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Bosch developed MEMS sensor deck for the Crazyflie
At FOSDEM 2016 we met someone from Bosch Sensortec, he was very interested by the Crazyflie and got one. Apparently his college liked the Crazyflie too because soon later we where contacted by Bosch...
View ArticleMerry Christmas from Bitcraze!
This year we decided to do a short Merry Christmas video. The video was done during one chaotic evening last week were both time and technology seemed to be against us. We are anyway happy with the...
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Getting started and get involved
So you have opened your Christmas present and found your long wished-for Crazyflie. Congratulations! Or maybe you have had your Crazyflie for a while and want to play with it during the holidays? In...
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Bitcraze, Crazyflie and Loco Positioning System at FOSDEM17
For the third year we will be at FOSDEM on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February 2017 in Brussels. The last two years we have been present and Fred, the Android client maintainer, has had a lightning talk...
View ArticleNews from the comunity
Quite a lot has happened in the community in the latest month so we though we would dedicate this Monday post to you :-). On the firmware side, the loco positioning system has sparked a lot of...
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New decks and presentation at FOSDEM 17
In this beginning of 2017 we are proud to announce that there are two new decks for the Crazyflie 2.0. The first one has been in the works for quite some time, it is the Micro SD card deck. It enables...
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Crazyflie on the catwalk at Berlin Fashion Week
During the fall of 2016 fashion designer Maartje Dijkstra have in collaboration with music producer Beorn Lebenstedt (Newk) and engineer Erik Overmeire been working with the creation “TranSwarm...
View ArticleBack from FOSDEM 2017
For the third year some of us from Bitcraze visited Fosdem, the biggest open-source European conference. Like the other years we enjoyed being there a lot and we had a great time hanging-out with...
View ArticleTDoA swarm with the Loco Positioning system
We have spent most of our time working on the two way ranging in the Loco Positioning system lately, mainly on features that are not directly related to the actual ranging but such as making it easier...
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