Frederic Gurr

The Crazyflie 2.0 is a nano quadcopter, a flying open source development platform invented by Bitcraze. It features a modular design (similar to Arduino), powerful and robust hardware, polyglot and cross-platform software support and has been used in different private and academic science and research projects around the world.

This talk will focus on news from the Crazyflie universe, like new expansion boards, software improvements, interesting research projects and most importantly the new indoor positioning system based on UWB radios. It promises to make indoor navigation two orders of magnitude cheaper than commercial systems.

The Crazyflie 2.0 is the second generation of the Crazyflie nano quadcopter, a flying open source development platform invented by Bitcraze. Apart from improved hardware and payload it features a modular design (similar to Arduino shields) which adds new capabilities like a LED-ring, wireless charging, a camera, GPS or a prototype expansion board. This allows to do hardware and software development on an open platform that fits in the palm of your hand. The Crazyflie is running on open source software and hardware. It has been used in different private and academic science and research projects around the world.

This talk will focus on the Crazyflie 2.0's modular design (similar to Arduino), new expansion boards (called "decks"), some interesting research projects where it was used and recent improvements on the software side (e.g. flashing the firmware from a mobile device).

In 2009 three Swedish engineers invented a small quadcopter that started with a simple idea: get an electronic board (PCB) to fly. They created the "Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter" which weighs only 19g and fits in the palm of your hand. It can be controlled from various devices, including PC, Android or iOS devices, Raspberry Pi or a R/C remote. While the main client has been written in Python, it has also been ported to Java, C, JavaScript. Since the beginning of 2013 the hardware can be bought from http://www.seeedstudio.com, but the schematics for the PCB and the firmware/host source code are also available on their website/Github account. Due to the low cost for the hardware and the open source approach, the Crazyflie has been used in different private and academic science and research projects around the world.