These days drones are buzzing, not only in the skies, but throughout the maker community! Makers' love affair with drones is easy to understand: it has all the trademarks of the maker movement. From open source hardware, robotics (like sensors), cameras, to innovative applications to solve real-world problems, drones are fun and functional. In Volume 44 of Make:, the editors dive into the red-hot world of quadcopters, with drone builds and inspired aerial activities.In this issue:

• Build the maker hangar R/C tricopter
• 3D print a quadcopter
• How to waterproof your drone
• Setting up an FPV drone race
• Pilot's checklist

• DIY carbon fiber acoustic guitar
• Singing plasma-arc speaker
• 3D printable electric motor
• Easy infinity mirror
• Clone a fig tree
• Raspberry Pi super security camera