Red Echo

April 12, 2013

The Crazyflie Quadcopter weighs 19 grams. Its PCB is its chassis. It uses the typical nRF24L01+ chip and its processor is an equally typical STM32F103, so it should be relatively easy to program. IMU is an Invensense MPU-6050. It’s like a laundry list of all the obvious best choices for a hacker’s toy – nothing weird and undocumented, just the totally normal parts you’d pick if you were going to design this yourself, all soldered up and ready to fly. Cost is $173 and it’s backordered far enough in the future that you’ll be able to buy the inevitable Chinese knockoff in a toy store before you get one of the originals.

1 Comment

  1. Also great in this vein: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/04/the-bionicopter-a-robotic-dragonfly-by-festo/

    Comment by Mike Tyka — April 14, 2013 @ 7:59 pm