Check out this amazing video. The music is... different. Play it through your stereo at full volume in a dark room and flicker a desk lamp pointed at your face on and off. Well that's what it was like when I turned up to a Klaxons gig and saw Simian Mobile Disco when I was tired and sober.
Anyway, these are Mikrokopters - radio controlled quadrotors. They make use of 3-axis accelerometers and gyros to stabilized flight, and I2C serial bus motor control so it can respond quickly enough that it all works beautifully. The guys there have made it all open source and even provide a shop to buy the bits from.
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