We’re happy to announce that release 2025.09 is now available. This update includes Python 3.13 support and improved battery voltage compensation, along with enhanced trajectory control capabilities. The release also features substantial stability and architectural work that lays the groundwork for upcoming features and products. Thanks to our community contributors for their valuable additions to this release.| Bitcraze
Guest post by Dominik Grzelak, Dresden University of Technology, Germany| www.bitcraze.io
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
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
Drones can perform a wide range of interesting tasks, from crop inspection to search-and-rescue. However, to make drones practically attractive they should be safe and cheap. Drones can be made safer by reducing their size and weight. This causes less damage in a collision with people or the environment. Additionally, being cheap means that the drones can take more risk – as it is less expensive to lose one – or that they can be deployed in larger numbers.| www.bitcraze.io
The lighthouse positioning system is an optically-based positioning system that allows an object to locate itself with high precision indoors. The system allows to get a precision of tracking approaching what can be achieved with a Motion Capture system, but for a much lower cost and with the advantage that the position is acquired onboard the tracked device rather than in the infrastructure.| www.bitcraze.io
It’s been 2 weeks ago that we went to ROSCon ’24 in Odense Denmark as exhibitor and silver sponsor! Since it was a 2-hour train ride for us, it made much sense for us to attend this as a company and we are very happy we did. In this blog post we are sharing our experiences of the event.| www.bitcraze.io
We will be going to ROSCon 2024, Odense Denmark on the October 22th and 23rd! We will be located at booth 21.| www.bitcraze.io
IROS in Kyoto is over and all Bitcrazers are finally back in Sweden again. We had a really good time in Japan and enjoyed all the interesting discussions we had with all of you, thanks!| 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
Ever since we started going to fairs to show off the Crazyflies, we’ve been trying to push the boundaries for the demos. Often we’ve used the fairs as an opportunity to either develop new functionality or try out new ideas. Something we’ve always been interested in, especially for fairs, is autonomous flights. It’s hard to talk to people about the Crazyflie while trying to fly it at the same time. Back in 2015 we were using the Kinect for piloting the Crazyflie at the Bay Area Maker F...| www.bitcraze.io
Welcome to the “The Beginner’s Guide to Drones” for programmers curious about exploring the world of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). If you’re a coder from another field, this guide will walk you through the basics of drones, their components, and how to start programming them. Let’s dive in and see how your coding skills can take flight!| www.bitcraze.io
Start up| www.bitcraze.io
It’s been 2 weeks ago that we went to ROSCon ’24 in Odense Denmark as exhibitor and silver sponsor! Since it was a 2-hour train ride for us, it made much sense for us to attend this as a company and we are very happy we did. In this blog post we are sharing our experiences of the event.| www.bitcraze.io
It’s been 2 weeks ago that we went to ROSCon ’24 in Odense Denmark as exhibitor and silver sponsor! Since it was a 2-hour train ride for us, it made much sense for us to attend this as a company and we are very happy we did. In this blog post we are sharing our experiences of the event.| www.bitcraze.io
We are excited to announce that we are working on several new link performance metrics for the Crazyflie that will simplify the troubleshooting of communication issues. Until now, users have had access to very limited information about communication links, relying primarily on a “link quality” statistic based on packet retries (when we have to re-send data) and an RSSI channel scan. Our nightly tests have been limited to basic bandwidth and latency testing. With this update, we aim to exp...| www.bitcraze.io
We are excited to announce that we are working on several new link performance metrics for the Crazyflie that will simplify the troubleshooting of communication issues. Until now, users have had access to very limited information about communication links, relying primarily on a “link quality” statistic based on packet retries (when we have to re-send data) and an RSSI channel scan. Our nightly tests have been limited to basic bandwidth and latency testing. With this update, we aim to exp...| www.bitcraze.io
