Crazyflie 2.0 as an autonomous flying platform
Crazyflie has been used by hackers and researchers as an autonomous flying platform for a while, though it has required expensive or very special software and equipment. Universities and the industry...
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Collaborate with us!
Lately the Crazyflie has been used more and more as a demonstration and reference platform by a number of sensor manufacturers, including Bosch Sensortec. The possibility to add expansion decks to the...
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Porting the Crazyflie client to Qt5
The Crazyflie client, the software running on a computer that is used to control and get telemetry from the Crazyflie, is written in Python and used PyQt4 as graphical user interface framework. This...
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Autonomous photo shoot
Early on when we started to work on the Loco Positioning system, we came up with an idea of a Crazyflie autonomously flying into a light box, positioning it self for a few product pictures and then...
View ArticleUpdated autonomous flight using OpenCV and Kalman filter
At Bitcraze we have some history with trying to fly our Crazyflie autonomously. The most recent step is the Loco Positioning System that allows us, and you, to fly in a full room. The Loco Positioning...
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Z-ranger deck now availible
For those of you out there that are new to flying drones the height is often the most difficult thing to control. One solution to that problem is our newly released Z-ranger deck that can precisely...
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Crazyflie firmware and client release 2017.4 with Z-Ranger support
We are happy to announce that we have released new versions of the Crazyflie Firmware and the Crazyflie client, both are now in version 2017.4. The main feature of the release is support for the new...
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Crazyradio: past, present and future
The past The Crazyradio has been designed as a radio dongle to control the original Crazyflie 1. It is based on a Nordic Semiconductor nRF24LU1. It is basically the radio from Crazyflie 1, the...
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Loco positioning tag
Ever since we released the Alpha round of the Loco positioning system we’ve been talking about designing a more generic tag that could be used together with other robotics platforms for local...
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Meet us in Singapore!
We are going to the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Singapore. The exhibition is open Tuesday May 30 to Thursday June 1 and we will have a booth, number C08, where we will...
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Demo for ICRA 2017
A couple of weeks ago we played with recording and retracing trajectory directly from the Crazyflie using Loco Positioning System. The result was quite nice and resulted, a first for us, in a fully...
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Loco positioning out of early access!
We have been working with our indoor positioning system for over a year now and during that time the interest for the Loco positioning system have continuously been growing. Universities all over the...
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ICRA 2017
We exhibited at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Singapore a couple of weeks ago. We had a booth where we demoed autonomous flight with the Crazyflie 2.0 and the Loco...
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Prototype of a brushless Crazyflie
For a while now we have been selling the BigQuad deck which makes it possible to transform the CF2 to control a bigger sized drone. It does so by becoming the quadrotor control board, controlling...
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Towards Persistent, Adaptive Multi-robot Systems
This week’s Monday post is a guest post written by members of the Robust Adaptive Systems Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. As researchers in the Robust Adaptive Systems Lab (Director: Prof. Nathan...
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Qualisys visiting Bitcraze
A couple of weeks ago Qualisys visited us at the Bitcraze office, they came with the Miqus motion capture system that they installed temporary in the office. This gave us the opportunity to play with...
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Multi-robot Path Planning for Flying-and-Driving Vehicles
This week’s Monday post is a guest post written by members of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. One of the focuses of the Distributed Robotics Lab, which is run by Daniela...
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It’s summer again!
It is summer again in Sweden and things are now starting to slow down and people are going to vacation. The last couple of years we have used the summer to look back and clean-up the technical dept...
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Crazyflie 2.0 Flow deck
We are pleased to announce the release of a new expansion deck for Crazyflie 2.0: the Flow deck. The flow deck is a new expansion board for Crazyflie 2.0 that contains an optical flow sensor from...
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Crazyflie-based quadcopter with Raspberry pi camera
There have been a few requests from the community for a brushless Crazyflie and we blogged about a prototype we are working on a few weeks ago. The most common reason for wanting brushless motors is to...
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