Oh man this is so true. Here's what you can do with drones by using opencv and the opencv_contrib extra modules along with a usb radio transmitter and web camera for tracking position with a bit of matrix math. OpenCV is an amazing library.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh6WmV9ZXfM

Pick a task that needs to use images and you'll find that OpenCV is probably what you want to use.