FireFly Eindhoven -

Firefly's goal is to develop an inspiring light show using flying drones

The team aims to put up an amazing light show at Eindhoven University of Technology using drones, LEDs and music!

The Drone

Our drone was developed in association with Avular Eindhoven, a manufacturer of drones. Some parts are specifically designed for light shows.

The Team

Meet the team! Find out which people make up the team of Firefly and their responsibilities within the team.

Upcoming Events

Find out what we are doing next! Here we will write all about our upcoming projects and how you can see us in action!

Today an article about our team has appeared on the website of Cursor! Cursor is the news platform of the TU/e where you can find weekly news updates on what is happening on and around the University of Technology in Eindhoven. They have written a great article about our team, what we have been up

New show design (concepts)

By SaraMay 24, 2018Animation, Music, Photo, Video

We have been working hard on a new show design. We have created three different concepts and made some sketches and animations for them. If you are interested, have a look at them below!

TMC video

By Iris CampsMay 24, 2018Collaboration, Event, Team, Video

For the TMC event, on the 19th of April, we created a video that shows our presentation! It also gives you an impression of the ambiance of the day. Feel free to watch it below

Entrepreneural Experience Event at TMC

By SaraApril 23, 2018Event, Photo, Team

Last Thursday we attended the Entrepreneural Experience Event (E3) organized by TMC. It was a great opportunity to show people participating in high tech industries in their every day life what we are creating with the Firefly team. We had some interesting conversations with employees from TMC, entrepreneurs and technical students while networking downstairs.

Bowling activity

By Iris CampsMarch 24, 2018Photo, Team

We all went for bowling last Thursday (March 15), it was a huge success! It built the team spirit and most of all it was great fun! Check out the pics.

New Animation Environment

By Iris CampsMarch 23, 2018Photo, Progress

We have a new animation environment! It allows to visualize our tests in the robot soccer field in a much more realistic manner.

Feedforward

By Iris CampsMarch 22, 2018Photo, Progress

Yesterday (March 21st) we added feedforward to our controller and it really improved tracking! We now can control very well the overshoot we had before!

Z Trajectory

By Iris CampsMarch 15, 2018Progress, Video

Last week, we have been working on including the z coordinate in our trajectory. We now know how to include it in the trajectory and will continue to work on it this week.

Top View

By Iris CampsMarch 11, 2018Progress, Video

This video shows the top view of one of the trajectories!

Our first demo!

By Iris CampsMarch 10, 2018Collaboration, Progress, Team

Our first demo will be at 19th of April at TMC. We will fly one drone and have a screen showing the animation synchronized with two other drones.