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I'm pretty new to the Crazyflie great fun to fly around. It's really got me excited about embedded development again.

I think its a good platform, particularly the crazy radio link, boot loader, and the tool chain you've put together is a great starting point for lots of experiments.

I'd like to try it out with other stuff, whilst keeping the Crazyflie itself intact. Maybe next year I'll build a bigger

Have you got any recommendations for compatible dev kits? STM32 ones or will any Cortex M3 board do? Mbed?
What about programmers and debugger? I noticed you mentioned bus blaster?
How about the crazy radio - do you know any breakout boards for that radio?

Any other tips?

Cheers,

Dave

I'm not sure what you mean by 'compatible dev kits' but the crazyflie is basically a dev kit (but without the built in debugger like a lot of them have now).

I think the path of least resistance would be a STM32 Discovery kit. I haven't got around to trying it yet but the discovery boards have a debugger on them and I believe you should be able to connect it to the crazyflie.

By compatible I mean something I could program with the same software, same OS. I realize you'd need new HAL files for different hardware.

That is what I was hoping for as the Crazyflie is quite expensive itself; I'm hoping for something cheaper, maybe that I can build a larger Quadcopter with. Something more modular would be better - if you break one component you can fix it.

An ARM dev kit from ST will have the least amount of porting effort. They may have discovery board with the same/similar MCU as the crazyfile.