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The New Yorker has a piece in its latest issue about a build your own drone event organized last month by the DC Area Drone User Group. You can read the article at http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2013/04/08/130408ta_talk_stillman. Unfortunately, the New Yorker does have a paywall, so you need to be a subscriber to see the full article. The beginning reads:  

"One recent Saturday morning, in a suburb of Washington, D.C., an eight-year-old boy named Ethan Manners and his father, José (“as in table manners,” the father said), arrived at a party whose invitation read “Do you want to build your own drone?” The Manners contingent was undecided. “We’re in watch-and-learn mode,” José said, explaining that he and Ethan were drawn by the mission of the party’s hosts—the D.C. Area Drone User Group—to promote “the use of flying robots for recreational, humanitarian, and artistic purposes.” Before they invested in their own drone kit, made in China (and available online for around three hundred and twenty-six dollars), they wanted to observe. “Moving from building Legos to drones—it’s like making the switch from the N.C.A.A. to the N.B.A.,” José said. . . "