Guest post by Dominik Grzelak, Dresden University of Technology, Germany This blog post accompanies a research article published in the XR Salento 2025 proceedings (Springer LNCS). Setting up a mobile indoor positioning system with the Crazyflie platform—specifically using the Loco Positioning System (LPS)—typically involves walking through a large room with a laser measure, sticky notes,… 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
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
With the Swedish summer upon us, things are more calm at Bitcraze. The summer is usually a time for us to look a bit more at fixing infrastructure and other things that we do not have time to work on the rest of the year. One of the things I have been looking at improving lately is the state of our Python projects.| Bitcraze
A couple of weeks ago, we were at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta. This year’s ICRA drew over 7,000 attendees, making it the biggest edition yet. We had a booth at the exhibition where we showed our decentralized swarm demo. The setup included a mix of Crazyflie 2.1+ units with Qi charging decks and Crazyflie 2.1 Brushless platforms with our new charging dock. The entire swarm operated onboard, with two Lighthouse base stations for positioning. More details about the setup can be found in the recent s...| 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