Although not a drone, it is pretty cool to see this tech being open sourced, getting miniaturized, and at a price point where many people can afford them. Take

Although not a drone, it is pretty cool to see this tech being open sourced, getting miniaturized, and at a price point where many people can afford them. Take the Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter [1] for example, open source and fairly cheap, there is even a really cool demo video [2], I guess you could use the DIY drone software on your laptop to control this thing. I generally think of open source as software, but it's very cool to see hardware project too, there are even wikis for the copter [3] and radio [4], which explain the projects and the hacks. To help get a sense for how small this thing is check out this assembly video [5]. [1] http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/crazyflie-nano-quadcopter-kit-10dof-with-crazyradio-bccfk02b-p-1365.html http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/crazyflie-nano-quadcopter-k... [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WBUVYZkODI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WBUVYZkODI [3] http://wiki.bitcraze.se/projects:crazyflie:index http://wiki.bitcraze.se/projects:crazyflie:index [4] http://wiki.bitcraze.se/projects:crazyradio:index http://wiki.bitcraze.se/projects:crazyradio:index [5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS3qR1IjeGE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS3qR1IjeGE