So you have opened your Christmas present and found your long wished-for Crazyflie. Congratulations! Or maybe you have had your Crazyflie for a while and want to play with it during the holidays? In this blog post we will give you some pointers on where to find information and inspiration.
Getting started
You can find all our getting started guides in the “Tutorials” menu on www.bitcraze.io. Take a look at “Getting started with the Crazyflie 2.0” to see how to assemble the kit and take off for your first flight. If you have an expansion deck you will also find a guide for how to install it.
Development
When you are comfortable flying the Crazyflie you might feel that it is time for the next step, to make use of the flexibility of the platform. After all it is designed to be modified!
Check out the “Getting started with development” tutorial to set up your development environment, build your first custom firmware and download it to the copter.
Maybe you want to add a sensor or some other hardware? Heat up your soldering iron and dive in to it! Find more information about the expansion bus on the wiki. The wiki is the place to look for all product and project documentation.
All source code is hosted on github.com/bitcraze and this is also where you will find documentation related to each repository.
Projects
Looking for inspiration for a project? Take a look at hackster.io or read our blog posts. The video gallery contains some really cool stuff as well as our You Tube channel.
Contribute!
Open source is about sharing, creating something awesome together and contribute to the greater good! Whenever you do something that you think someone else could benefit from, please contribute it! If you were curious or confused about something, someone else probably will too. Help them by sharing your thoughts, insights and discoveries.
Why not
- Answer a question on the forum
- Add a hack to hackster.io
- Submit a pull request to on of the repos on github
- Add an issue to one of the repos on github with a suggestion for an improvement or a bug report. Or maybe get involved in the discussion on an issue?
- Add or update the wiki
- Improve www.bitcraze.io
- Comment a blog post
Need help?
Can not find the solution to a problem? Don’t understand how or what to do? Have you read all documentation and are still confused? Don’t worry, head over to the forum and check if someone else had the same problem. If not, ask a new question on the forum and get help from the community.
Happy hacking!