Developer Bitcraze Generation 2nd | Manufacturer Bitcraze Website [1] | |
Type Unmanned aerial vehicle Release date 2016; 1 year ago (2016) | ||
The Crazyflie 2.0 is a lightweight, open source flying development platform for the Crazyflie drone.
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History
Crazyflie 2.0 is the second iteration of the open source Crazyflie drone released in 2013 by Marcus Eliasson, Arnaud Taffanel, and Tobias Antonsson. The Crazyflie platform specifications are open source and available to anyone through the Bitcraze wiki and the Bitcraze github repo
Features
The Crazyflie 2.0 is a palm sized UAV weighing 27 grams supporting wireless control over radio and bluetooth. It has a flight time of 7 minutes and a charge time of 40. As an open source project, its code and design specifications are available to anyone and the design was created with modification in mind.
Development
Control software used by the Crazyflie is written using C++. However, several languages can be used including Python and Ada/SPARK. There is also an Android client available