Phiamo / Crazyflie PC client / Commits. Quadcopters and Spatially-Centric Data | Ferret Labs. A few months ago I came across my new favorite toy, the Crazyflie nano quadcopter. Developed by Bitcraze, the Crazyflie is an open source firmware and hardware flying development board. With a relatively beefy STM32 ARM Cortext-M3 MCU and an expansion header the Crazyflie is an ideal candidate for upgrades and modifications. With such expandability, spare CPU cycles and RAM, it should be possible to interface the Crazyflie with the sensors necessary to facilitate autonomous flight and abiotic variable detection. Given the extremely flexible mobility of the Crazyflie, these variables can be detected nearly anywhere in space. The Crazyflie is an ideal candidate for unplanned, exploratory flight paths.
Imagine a little quadcopter with a bounded area to explore in the X, Y, Z axis. The purpose is to explore the matrix in the most efficient manner possible, while altering the flight path real-time given physical obstacles. Why is this useful? Cd ~/crazyflie-firmwarecscope -Rb The Results. Projects:crazyflie:userguide:index - Bitcraze Wiki. What is the Crazyfile Nano Quadcopter used for It can be used for a number of things but the primary usage is as a development platform and for quadcopter enthusiasts that would like a nano-quad. Here's a list of some possible uses: Implementing and testing control algorithms Adding functionality using the expansion interface Creating applications on the host side that control the quadcopter Help us out with implementing new features and finding/fixing bugs to make it an even better platform What do you need for flying Here's a short list of what is needed for flying: A controller for input of flight commands (joystick).
Basic concepts The Crazyflie is controlled from a computer using an input device such as a game controller (PS3 or Xbox 360). Flying The Crazyflie has 4 different controls: roll, pitch, yaw and thrust. Changing the yaw will make the quadcopter spin. The thrust is used to control the altitude of the quadcopter. Radio communication Durability Getting started The Crazyflie. Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter Kit 10-DOF with Crazyradio (BC-CFK-02-B) [ROB01315M] - $179.00. I was just wondering when this product will be in stock again? Please kindly click " Notify Me " button and you will receive an email when it is in stock Answered by Yang tongtong | 2014-03-14 Was this useful? 0 of 0 people found this useful If I were to cut the arms off of the circuit board, would that damage the functionality of the quadcopter?
Just make sure not to "break" them off, since this kind of force might affect the MEMS sensors. Answered by Marcus Eliasson | 2014-03-18 No, it shouldn't since there are no signals routed out onto the arms that holds the motors. Is this compatible with the JR DSM2/DMSS transmitter? It could be compatible with a transmitter using the Nordic radio chip (like the E-Sky transmitter).
What is the best joystick to control a Crazyflie? The best one I've seen is a USB PlayStation 3 controller. Raspberry Pi pre-configured SD-card image. July 8th, 2013 Marcus 6 Responses In order for users to be able to pilot the Crazyflie from platforms without a graphical user interface there’s now a headless client in the repository named cfheadless. It’s intended to be run the command-line and is still under development, but working.
The main reason it was made in the first place was to enable flying from the Raspberry Pi. To use the image you have to edit the configuration if needed and then just connect your controller, power on the Crazyflie and lastly connect the Crazyradio. The image can be downloaded using this torrent or via direct download. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Projects:crazyflie:hacks:rasberrypi - Bitcraze Wiki. In order to make it easy for users that have a Raspberry Pi to test out our headless client we prepared an SD-card image that is ready to use out of the box. The full SD-card image, and instructions on how to install it are located here. Instead of the official Python headless client, there is also a working Ruby version of the headless client, developed by a user.
This version, called Crubyflie, can be installed on top of the SD-card image described above or on a standalone version of Linux/Debian/Raspbian. It allows you to adjust control variables (like X-mode or max thrust) by changing the values in a configuration file. For more information visit the Crubyflie installation page. As an alternative to a full SD-card image, you can manually install the headless Python client as a program on your Pi. For the following installation instructions it is assumed that you are running the popular Raspbian distrubution on your Pi. Setup the Crazyradio dongle Install the headless client #! #! Important.