Drone Dojo, an online community that offers a number of practical, how-to online drone classes, posted a video to YouTube showing how to make your own Pixhawk Raspberry Pi drone in 36 minutes.

“Today we’re using Python, which is just a basic coding language, and we’re using it to make the drones fly; turn left, right, straight forward, raise, crash,” Freshman Russ Landry said.

At Schechter School of Long Island, you could still make out the smiles. The student drones are unlike CBS2's drone, which is steered by remote control and gives a bird's-eye view of the action below.

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