From ABC News:

San Diego is joining forces with Tijuana to become the center of the burgeoning drone…

Technically, use over residential areas is already disallowed by the FAA and has been for decades, but some communities are hoping to take matters in their own hands.

From USA…

FAA map showing all the states where agencies have applied to be one of six drone test sites picked by end 2013.

Report on a FAA request for public comment on domestic UAV integration from The Verge:

Citizens…

Good luck to him. I tried this a couple years ago and found it way too noisy to work. Perhaps he'll find a way.

From …

Ionic thrusters use high voltage to ionize air and create an airflow, which in the right configuation can create thrust with no moving parts. I've tried an experiment like the above, and barely generated enough lift to raise a little balsa and aluminum foil off a table, but MIT says they can do far…

We have a winner! Adrian Mescalchini is the victor of our "Design a New Banner" competition, and his work is now gracing the top of…

From Hackaday. How many of these would be aplicable to UAVs?

The above video just one of many demonstrations from…

Very nice engineering proof of concept from this team at Queen Mary University in London. Hasn't flown yet, but the airframe design is done. 

(via sUAS News)

There's a really good piece in this week's Business Week (print, web and Ipad, shown) about DIY Drones. 

Here's how it begins:

The Federal Aviation…

From Design Engineering:

Building on the work of last year’s bionic creation, the Smart Bird, Festo announced that it will literally launch its latest creation, the BionicOpter, at Hannover Messe in April.…

Go Randy! (Japan Drones is a 3DR affiliate and Randy is the lead on the ArduCopter project)

From a press…

From Make, an experience trying the NeuroSky headset to control a copter with brain waves:

If launching virtual vehicles at people isn’t cool enough for…

The current issue of The Magazine, an excellent e-mag with long-form articles, has a thoughtful piece on domestic drones by Pulitizer Prize winning author Eli Sanders. 

The editors introduce it thusly:

We already live in a fishbowl, and we’re getting more gawkers, writes Eli Sanders in his article, “Ground Control,” told in three…

From Hackaday:

Hackaday alum [Adam Munich] shot …

Love the conclusion: "No other system offers this much control for so little cost"!

You can read the whole thing here, but suffice to say it's a great intro to APM 2.5…

From the awesome Nodecopter team:

The Summer of Drones is an epic series of up to 34 Nodecopter community events to take place in North America and Europe from June to September…

This went a lot better than it would have without that metal cage.  Video here (it won't embed, for some reason)

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