Drones, DIY-style

Here’s a great New York Times writeup of DIY Drones, a burgeoning community of people making unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs. It’s really impressive what they’ve done in such a short period, only being started in 2007 by Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired magazine. It’s one of the fantastic business success stories of the growing Maker movement, clearing filling a need of people to make things easily in a collaborative way. It helps that UAVs and quadcopters are so cool.

Check out the video taken at the Autonomous Vehicle Competition with Chris. An autonomous dinosaur makes an appearance.