The community interest for FPV flight made us buy a light weight analog FPV kits a while a go. We bought the 5.8GHz micro combo set from fpvhobby to do a first test. It took a little while to solder things together but it wasn’t that bad. We soldered the camera and the transmitter power [...]
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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 [...]
Pre-order has started!
February 1st, 2013 Marcus Wait, what? Is it Monday again already?! Well no, don’t worry you didn’t miss the weekend. The reason for breaking our “Monday post” tradition is that we couldn’t wait to announce that the pre-order has started for the Crazyflie!! The last couple of weeks has been really busy finalizing as much as possible [...]
Assembly video
January 29th, 2013 tobias Back in November when we got the pre-series we shot an assembly video showing how to assemble a Crazyflie kit. We shot it in Tobias shed in his back garden where it was about 10*C, that’s why Marcus is wearing a winter jacket. It was also pretty late and it’s the 7th Crazyflie in a row [...]
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 [...]
Presentation from Øredev
November 13th, 2012 Marcus The last week we have been busy preparing for the presentation we had at the Øredev conference where we talked about the Crazyflie history and design. We had a great time and got to meet some fellow nerds and talk about technology stuff! All the presentations and keynotes where filmed and can be found on the Øredev site. So if you [...]
Another key-chain camera hack
October 15th, 2012 tobias We discovered a new key-chain video camera which is called the 808#16. It had gotten a pretty good review so we decided to give the video camera add-on hack yet another try. A while ago we tried it with a 808#14 but it didn’t work that well when we where running it directly from the [...]
Inductive charging hack
September 24th, 2012 arnaud After the LED hack we are back with an inductive charging hack! The idea of charging Crazyflie inductively is almost as old as the copter itself. Last week we received a Palm Touchstone charging kit that we ordered. Like many phone hacks using this inductive charger we dismounted the receiving coil and electronic and attach [...]
LED hack
September 17th, 2012 tobias When I was shopping for some ink-cartridge at this Swedish accessory store named Kjell&Co I also bought one of these 12V LED lamps. I didn’t buy it to actually use it instead I bought it to have a look inside. I cracked it open when I came home and found, not so surprisingly, a lot [...]
Crazyflie dogfighting
July 16th, 2012 tobias One Sunday in March when we met up to work on the Crazyflie we suddenly realized that we do a lot of developing and discussing when we meet, but we don’t actually do that much flying. After realizing this we spent most of the Sunday just flying and playing around with the quadcopters. So what could we [...]