There’s an updated version of the Bitcraze virtual machine out. The VM has all the pre-requisites for using the Crazyflie/Crazyradio and also the full development environment for our projects. Here’s a list of the improvements from version 0.2: Upgraded version to of Xubuntu to 13.04 Improved README and instructions inside VM Updated to the latest [...]
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Lot’s of things happening
June 3rd, 2013 
Marcus It’s been yet another week with lot’s of ideas, contributions and discussions. Here’s some of the things we’ve seen the last week: The propeller test is getting even better thanks to DesTinY We have seen a screenshot from allynbauer of a new advanced input axis configuration We have had lots of improvements from Daniel Lee in [...]
Next batch in production
May 27th, 2013 Marcus It’s been another busy week at Bitcraze. Unfortunately we are lagging a bit behind on pull-requests and such, but we are doing our best to catch up. Also development taking place in the forum has accelerated and we will try to summarize some of it next week. The planning for the next batch is finished [...]
It’s like an avalanche…
May 20th, 2013 tobias Development is starting to accelerate and we are really having a hard time catching up on pull-requests and forum activity. It’s like an avalanche, once it is started, it is impossible to stop . We are also doing our best on the support side and we want to send out a big thank you to [...]
Another week of fixes and contributions
May 13th, 2013 Marcus It’s been another week with lots of stuff going on. Shortly after the Crazyflies were delivered things really started to accelerate. Now there’s lots of cool stuff going on and we are trying to keep up Here’s a few things from the last week. People have started looking at the pressure sensor that is mounted [...]
Crazyflies all over the world
May 6th, 2013 tobias It’s been an incredible week seeing people from all over the world getting their Crazyflies into the air!! We have seen videos of people doing crazy stuff we never thought of, 3D models of cases and frames on Thingiverse and of course a lot of images of people unpacking and assembling their Crazyflies. The wiki [...]
Development support features
February 5th, 2013 Marcus So finally it’s Monday again As you might have noticed the Crazyflie got released for pre-release last week! All our code has now been pushed onto Bitbucket and our repositories can be found here. Since we did some restructuring of the code before pushing there might be some bugs that we are currently hunting. The [...]
Crazyflie OpenCV tracking test
January 15th, 2013 Marcus We’re still busy with administrative stuff and preparing everything for release so sorry for the lack of tech posts. Hopefully there will be more time for those later But we did spend one night this week trying out something that we have talked about forever: Using OpenCV to auto-pilot the Crazyflie. For controlling the Crazyflie [...]
Crazyflie piloted by Raspberry Pi
November 5th, 2012 arnaud Last week we received one of the new raspberry pi and we wanted to start doing something useful with it. One idea that came directly in mind was to control the copter with it. As it has 2 USB port it should be possible to use one for the gamepad and one for the Crazyradio [...]
Tools
October 1st, 2012 Marcus One of the goals during this project has been to only use open-source tools for development. The main incentive for this is that we want everyone to be able to take part in the development and look at the all the parts of it once it has has been released. Also it was a great [...]