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How cool is this!? 🛸 The @bitcraze.io (Crazyflie) team built THE CLAW—just for fun! An epic way to inspire students with robotics and creativity.
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#STEM #Crazyflie #Robotics

We're headed for some exciting weeks!

Next Monday, we fly to Charlotte to help and support ICUAS competition. We then continue the adventure towards Atlanta and #ICRA2025.

Check out all the details here:
www.bitcraze.io/2025/04/bitc...

Who else will be there? Let's connect!

Thursday hack: the Lighthouse deck on a platform!

Have you tried our new Brushless? 🎉 We’d love to hear what you think!

Take 2 mins to fill out this quick survey:
https://tinyurl.com/2rbm7wb8

New on the Bitcraze blog: Tom van Dijk from @AETUDelft shares his insect-inspired route-following work with the Crazyflie Brushless as highlighted in Science Robotics last July!
Learn how the Crazyflie navigates autonomously using visual homing here:

https://tinyurl.com/2s4c6kd6

Don't miss our dev meeting this afternoon! You might get an early peek 👀at our Christmas video...🎄🎥

We made it to #roscon2024 ! See you at booth 21.

#robotics #ros #crazyflie

We've been busy this past week getting ready for #ROSCon2024! We even used Kimberly McGuire as a makeshift wall to fine-tune our demo 😄.
If you're attending, swing by and check out our mapping demo. And don't miss Kimberly's talk on the Lighthouse - it's Tuesday at 14.40!

Our latest Monday blogpost is about what to expect at our booth at next week's #ROSCon2024 in Odense, and abo9ut our guest feature at OpenCV live! where we talked about Demo-Driven Development.

Read it on our blogpost here:

https://www.bitcraze.io/2024/10/roscon-24-next-week-and-opencv-live/

Thanks, @unifei_oficial for this mesmerizing image of a Crazyflie flight!

In the last decade we have made many awesome hacks and demos! Since this is actually an integral part of our development process, we show our history of demo-driven development at our Dev Meeting tomorrow (2nd of October). See you there ! https://github.com/orgs/bitcraze/discussions/1565

This year, we're going to ROSCon! Join us at Odense where we'll have a booth and a talk about the Lighthouse system. More info here: https://www.bitcraze.io/2024/09/roscon-24-were-coming/

#ROSCon2024 #ROS #roboticsconference #Bitcraze

How can we shrink the computational complexity and memory costs of MPC for tiny robots? TinyMpc solves this in the Crazyflie! Learn more from Sam Schoedel and @KhaiNguyenX from @CarnegieMellon in our latest blogpost!

https://tinympc.org
https://tinyurl.com/223uk36e

We will have a developer meeting about the #crazyflie and #ros 2 on Wednesday the 12th of June, 3 pm CEST.

Check for more information in Github discussions: https://github.com/orgs/bitcraze/discussions/1379

Safety first! The upcoming Crazyflie Brushless will get both propguards and regular legs. What do you think of how they look?

Read last week's blogpost here:

https://www.bitcraze.io/2024/05/the-crazyflie-2-1-brushless-is-getting-optional-propeller-guards/

Sometimes, you loose positioning and you end up in the ceiling. That can happen in a demo!

We're at #ICRA2024 !! Come see our autonomous demo in our booth (IC085).

And to read the blogpost with more explanations, follow this link:
https://www.bitcraze.io/2024/04/prototype-of-forward-facing-expansion-connector/

The dev meeting is on the 8th of May, 15.00 CEST.
To join, follow this link:
https://github.com/orgs/bitcraze/discussions/1315

We've been working on a new expansion deck prototype that would allow us to plug in a camera (for example!)
Want to have more info, or better yet, give your feedback? You can join our dev meeting on the 8th or read our blogpost (links in comments)

Great news!
After a few weeks without Crazyflies, our warehouse is now fully packed with our best-selling items. All the bundles are also available - don't hesitate to see our full offering at https://store.bitcraze.io/.

Our latest blogpost explains what Python bindings are and how we use them for testing and simulation. Read the blogpost here: https://www.bitcraze.io/2024/04/python-bindings-for-the-crazyflie-firmware/

📢 DEV MEETING POSTPONED

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we regret to inform you that today's dev meeting has been postponed.
We hope to see you next week, same time, same link!

Sorry for the inconvenience.

📢 DEV MEETING POSTPONED 📢

Unfortunately, today's dev meeting has been postponed.

We hope to see you next week, the 7th of April, same time, same link!

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Curious about what's under the hood of our client? 🧐 Join us tomorrow for our dev meeting! This is the perfect opportunity for you to gain some clarity !
All the details for joining the meeting are provided below. 
https://github.com/orgs/bitcraze/discussions/1250

Hope to see you there!

It's now possible to dump and load persistent parameters from you Crazyflie through our CFclient! Also we merged the system-id deck driver in the firmware. Something to read during your easter break! 🐣 https://www.bitcraze.io/2024/03/parameters-and-system-id-code/

We started thinking about future improvements for the #crazyflie client, and we started dreaming in #rustlang ! Look at our latest blogpost to learn more: https://www.bitcraze.io/2024/03/crazyflie-client-past-present-and-future/

This year we are helping out with coordinating the diversity scholarship for ROSCon 2024 together with Belén Torres (Wymaq). Apply before the deadline of the 5th of April/ share with anyone you think would qualify. https://www.bitcraze.io/2024/03/diversity-scholarship-roscon-2024/ @OpenRoboticsOrg

Simon Levy, from Washington and Lee University, used Haskell to warp parts of the Crazylife-firmware. Learn about his amazing work in our latest blogpost!

https://www.bitcraze.io/2024/03/lambdaflight-crazyflie-meets-haskell/

Do you want to know what recent changes we implemented to the supervisor? Do you have opinions about its future state, or just curious to hear what we plan?
Don't miss our dev meeting tomorrow!
More info here:
https://github.com/orgs/bitcraze/discussions/1196