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[...] the bottom, and without pre-defined vertical spacing. We only place female connectors on the expansion boards, which means that if you crash and bend the male pins, you just have to exchange them and [...]

[...] page. It explains a bit about the communication (Bluetooth LE and Crazyradio), the expansion boards and gives you an idea what you could use the platform for. The Crazyflie 2.0  [...]

[...] we would turn to our readers and community for help. In order to find a name to call our expansion boards we thought we would organize a little competition this and next week. For this week we would [...]

[...] measurement Master radio bootloader Radio and BLE communication Detect and check installed expansion boards The STM32 is responsible for all the rest, among other things: Sensor reading and motor [...]

[...] some prototypes of more expansions. Before the pre-order we were working really hard on a GPS expansion board, but in the end we didn’t think the current prototype had enough precision to launch. We [...]

[...] and to get valuable feedback. As you might know we have added One-Wire memories on all our expansion board so that CF2 is able to detect which expansion board is connected. The intent is to [...]

[...] code for controlling the Crazyflie 2.0. This week we are publishing the Crazyflie 2.0 expansion board template project. The project is done using KiCad and includes the schematics, the footprint [...]

[...] Wow, we are a bit overwhelmed with all the naming suggestions we got for our expansion board last week. It’s fun to see so many people joining in and having an opinion, thanks to [...]

[...] part of the thesis is to implement basic functionality of the selected design using our new Crazyflie. The radio used in our new design is the nRF51822 from Nordic Semiconductor, we will go into [...]

[...] landed on a design that we hope you will like. So it’s finally time to announce our new Crazyflie, the Crazyflie 2.0! Honestly we tried coming up with a cool name, but 2.0 just felt so [...]

[...] on the play store. Feedback We are really eager to hear what you think about the new Crazyflie 2.0, the instructions and everything else around it. So please drop by our feedback [...]

[...] testing of the hardware and preparing lots of practical things for the production of the new Crazyflie 2.0. With almost all the hardware finished, we are now working hard on preparing for the [...]

[...] While designing the Crazyflie 2.0 one of our focuses has been enhancing the current Crazyflie functionality. As a flying development kit the current Crazyflie already has a JTAG debug [...]

[...] As we said in previous post, with Crazyflie 2.0 one of the focus has been on enhancing the current Crazyflie platform. The radio range and power is one of these things that is good enough on the [...]

[...] current Crazyradio. More payload: Lot’s of users would like to lift more payload than the current Crazyflie can handle. To accomplish this we have upgraded the motors from 6 mm to 7 mm, which [...]

[...] can run a BLE stack and is still compatible with the nRF24Lx1 that we are using in the current Crazyflie and Crazyradio. This nRF51 chip contains an ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller, powerful enough  [...]

[...]  assembling the Crazyflie). For Crazyflie 2.0 we also needed to create new tests for the expansion port. First of all we needed to check that the connector is mounted properly and that the pins for [...]

[...] handles radio and power management and the STM32F4 handles all the rest: flight control, expansion port, log, param, etc. As far as the radio is concerned the nRF51 act as a bridge: CRTP packets [...]

[...] One feature of the new Crazyflie 2.0 that we are especially happy about is the new expansion port. We have attached a lot of hardware to the current Crazyflie and we have also seen lots of [...]

[...] expansion board”.  As far as we know this is the first flying platform that has this type of expansion port, and we think it deserves a cool name. Don’t you? We have been trying to come up with [...]