Ever since we decided to make the Crazyflie available as a kit we have looked at different possibilities for manufacturing and selling it. Because we don’t have much time to spend (due to that we all have daytime jobs…) and rather spend or time doing development, we needed someone that could take care of manufacturing and selling it.

During development we have been cooperating with Seeedstudio for prototype manufacturing and component sourcing. We were really pleased with their work so we decided to continue the cooperation to also let them manufacture and sell the Crazyflie and the USBRadio dongle.

Currently the plan is to start out with a small series of 100 kits which will be a “DIY” version.  The motors/battery has to be soldered and the motor mounts attached. If you have some soldering skills it won’t be a problem to assemble.  The next step would then be to increase the volume and also offer a RTF kit where everything is assembled. The reason for not doing the RTF kit from the beginning is that it’s more time consuming since we have to specify testing requirements and packaging for the platform.

As for the price we still have no number but our hope are that it will be in the 100-200USD range. Since we are still working on the motor mounts and we are unsure of the assembly/testing cost for the platform we don’t know for sure how much the units will cost to produce. Once this is clear we will post more info of the pricing for the different kits (DIY/RTF and USBRadion dongle).

Welcome to our new website Bitcraze.se! This bog/website is the home of the Crazyflie quadcopter and other projects we could come up with. News, progress, design and random thoughts about the project will be posted here. Out goal is to post some update at least every second week. More information about the project are still avaliable on the daedalus projects blog.

Why Bitcraze and not Daedalus Projects?

Originally the Daedalus projects blog/website was created to showcase the competence development projects that was done by the employees at Epsilon Embedded Systems in their free time. This is were the Crazyflie project first started. Last year we finally decided to send to a video of the Crazyflie to Hackaday.com and that’s when things really took off. More development was done and we decided to make a Crazyflie kit that could be manufactured and sold as an open source development platform. To finance development and manufacturing of the kit we created Bitcraze AB. At this point we felt that the project had outgrown the Daedalus Projects and decided to launch Bitcraze.se. The Daedalus projects website will still be up and active but news and progress for the Crazyflie will be posted on Bitcraze.se instead.