What happens when drones stop being just tools and start becoming social companions? Inside the Drone Gymnasium — a collaboration between Bitcraze, KTH, and Digital Futures — students and researchers explore how flying robots can share space with people, pushing social robotics from theory to real-world practice.… Read More| Bitcraze
The Crazyflie 2.1 Brushless just made indoor research drones better by longer flight-times and heavier payload lifts.… Read More| Bitcraze
We have already had a few discussions about putting more Rust into the Crazyflie ecosystem. One of the places where we find it could be the most beneficial is to replace the current Python-based Crazyflie Lib. Why a Rust Crazyflie Lib Rust is a modern system programming language that prioritizes reliability and productivity. This means… Read More| Bitcraze
At the beginning of the year, we released the Crazyflie 2.1 Brushless charging dock. This project was very much an experiment for us since this is the first product we are mainly manufacturing and assembling by ourselves in Sweden. We though we would write a little bit about the reason we made it that way and how it is going.| Bitcraze
UAV Recharging for Remote Applications Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are invaluable to challenging remote applications, including coastal monitoring, surveillance for safe passage in icy waterways, and search-and-rescue missions. However, after deployment in a remote setting, the functional life of the multirotor is ultimately limited by its battery life. The research we continue to investigate is the… Read More| Bitcraze
Debugging the Crazyflie using the debug-adapter kit gives you direct access to the STM32 with a hardware debugger. It makes it possible to pause execution, step through code, and inspect what’s happening in real time.| Bitcraze
Today’s blogpost comes from Joseph La Delfa, who is currently doing his Industrial Post-Doc with Bitcraze. The Qi deck and the Brushless charging dock allow you to start charging a Crazyflie quickly, without having to fiddle with a plug or a battery change. But when you need to charge 10 or more Crazyflies 2.x and… Read More| Bitcraze
You might already be familiar with the Crazyflie’s presence in numerous publications across various research fields. However, in this blog post, we’ll return to the basics and showcase some robotics concepts that can be taught using our platform.| Bitcraze
You might remember that at the beginning of this summer, we were invited to do a skill-learning session with the Crazyflie at the Robotics Developer Day 2024 (see this blog post) organized by The Construct. We showed the Crazyflie flying with the multi-ranger deck, capable of mapping the room in both simulation and the real world. Moreover, we demonstrated this with both manual control and autonomous wall-following. Since then, we wanted to make some improvements to the simulation. We now pre...| Bitcraze
