Bitcraze (private company)

Bitcraze AB was founded in 2011 by the designers of the Crazyflie quadcopter.

The purpose of the company was to finance the development and manufacturing of a Crazyflie kit and to make it available as an open source development platform.

We develop and manufacture a small quadcopter called the Crazyflie. We also develop and maintain a supporting infrastructure with various clients, expansion decks, debuggers, development environments and tools to enable the end users to modify the Crazyflie in any way they want.

Crazyflie is a small quadcopter that started with a simple idea: get an electronic board to fly. We were three embedded engineers from Sweden and we wanted to make a small flying machine that could be used indoors and with as few mechanical parts as possible. The result of this idea was a small quadcopter that used its printed circuit board (PCB) as the main mechanical frame with motors glued to the PCB. At that point it was the smallest quadcopter in the world.