These last few weeks I’ve been ordering parts for the Hackaday Testbed, a basic quadcopter to be used here at Hackaday. The top question I see when surfing multicopter forums is “What should I buy”.

In a recent column I described how my friend David Ewing, CTO at Synapse Wireless, is in the process of designing and building 250 wireless mesh networked propeller beanie hats. Known collectively as ...

VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) drones already have some advantages over multicopters and fixed-wing drones, but could they offer even better functionality? The designers of the ROTORwing seem to ...