The HexaKopter finally arrived last week.

It came as a kit with "some assembly" required and just over two days of work later it was assembled and ready to fly!
Some pictures of the build can be seen here.

The MikroKopter flies very well, the vibration is surprisingly low, it is very fast and agile (although something that I don't really want in this project) and is very very stable platform. Much better than I expected.

I am now investigating how to mount the sensors and onboard computer so I can start to collect data and try to automate it.