10 environmental sensors that go along with you. Airqualityegg.com/Screen capture Over the past few years, the world of clean technology has seen a major influx of environmental sensor technologies.
From ones that you can make yourself to those that are inspired by nature, the field has included many interesting takes on a technology that is proving to be more and more important, but the most significant trend in environmental sensors has been in personal, portable devices that measure air and water quality from our pockets or wrists. By making these sensors small and usually Bluetooth or Wi-Fi enabled, merely carrying out our normal daily routines could make citizen scientists of us all, significantly increasing the amount and precision of environmental data through crowdsourcing.
Crazyflie is one crazy-tiny quadrotor. A nippy new quadcopter named Crazyflie has just been made available for pre-order by Sweden's Bitcraze.
Unlike other pint-sized fliers like the (yet to be released) NanoQ and MeCam, this impressive-looking critter won't arrive in one piece and all ready to fly. Instead, Crazyflie is being made available as a self-build quadcopter development and hacking kit. View all The original Crazyflie project seeds were sown while Tobias Antonsson, Arnaud Taffanel and Marcus Eliasson were working for Swedish consultancy Epsilon.
After a successful video outing for the first prototype on Hack a Day, Bitcraze was born to bring the tiny quadcopter development kit to market. Réalisations - Alim. led.