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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If you've seen the movie Looper, you'll remember the scene above, showing what appears to be a drone crop sprayer. I think agricultural uses of UAVs will be one of the most interesting commercial markets, so this post lists a few suggested starting places and resources for people who want to follow this sector. 

• New DIY Drones Agricultural UAVs user group…

From Hackaday:

[execUc] took a stock V929 quadcopter and …

Good piece in The Verge on policy and legal challenges presented by the spread of domestic drones

Calm before the swarm: domestic drones…

Congrats to Team Ziphius, who won Engadget's Insert Coin innovation competition with their FPV mobile-controlled aquatic drone, and are now $25,000 further on their way to production 

From …

An excerpt today's New York Times, entitled Domestic Drones on Patrol:

The first to offer a degree program in unmanned aviation, the [University of…

From Wired Design:

A year ago, Greg Holloway set out to build an ocean drone, based on the tiny Raspberry Pi $35 computer.

Wired covered the start…

From Ars Technica:

[On the Antarctic ice], an ever-present danger is posed by crevasses: rents in the ice sheet up to 60 meters deep and 9 meters across—big…

This project will debut this weekend at the Engadget Expand show in San Francisco, which I'll be speaking at. From…

From The Verge:

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have created a bird-like claw that can be attached to an…

As is customary and traditional, we celebrate every new 1,000 members here and share the traffic stats. This time it's 36,000!

There were 2 million page views this month (we get over 70,000 page views a day). It took us just 21 days to get this latest 1,000 members--we're averaging about one…

This team entered this at the fun South by Southwest DroneGames that I was at this year, and one won (thanks for the catch, Martha) a special "cultural award" for best meme-surfing.  You can see some of the other DroneGames contestants and winners …

As someone who got my start in drones with Lego Mindstorms, I can appreciate the work that went into this. Must watch. 

From …

This could be our sister site ;-)

DIYRockets is a global space company helping humanity establish a civilization in…

From Hackaday, news of a new Indiegogo project to produce a real IR camera for less than $300 (although it needs an iPhone/Android smarthphone, too):

These devices normally cost a few…

This research from EPFL is from last year, but it's still worth a watch. Lovely engineering. 

From the EPFL YouTube stream

From Reuters:

They hover over Hollywood film sets and professional sports events. They track wildfires in Colorado, survey Kansas farm crops and vineyards in…

From Co:Design:

A group of scientists at Brown University are replicating the bat’s…

You may have seen this fun Audi vs Audi paintball duel. The above hexa is how they captured the aerial shots in a field too dangerous for a boom:…