http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/video-500-mapleseed-drone-takes-flight/

Video: $500 Mapleseed Drone Takes Flight
    * By Noah Shachtman
    * October 21, 2009

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Last year, the Pentagon’s mad science arm let expire a Lockheed contract to build a mini-drone in the shape of a maple seed. Lord knows how much the project costs. But it’s a good bet the Lockheed ‘bot had a price tag several orders of magnitude higher than this $500 maple-drone, put together by students at the University of Maryland.

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Neat. Pioneering work done by a grad student team?

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