I haven't posted what I got for my drone yet... but it's as follows:

Hobbyking X580 frame (will modify motor mounts to make sturdier)

4x F30A brushless speed controller (flash to SimonK firmware)

MultiWii Pro with GPS (will upgrade to Pixhawk later on)

 4x Turnigy D2836-9 brushless motors (268 Watt max power, 950KV)

12x4.7 SF props.  Will get some CF props soon, but these will get us airborne.

2S Lipo 2700mAH.  Will get some 3S also.  2S should be okay for testing, but may not have the payload capacity we need.

Will be using my ER9X flashed Turnigy 9X, with FrSky DJT module (telemetry enabled).  I had bought this a few months back from birthday money with the quadcopter project in mind for the future.

Received most of the parts in for the quad last week, but due to a planned vacation, couldn't work on it much.  I did however manage to get the Multiwii pro flashed and the frame put together.

Today I finally got around to working on the meat and potatoes of my first quadcopter.  Today I soldered some leads on the first ESC, and after pounding my head against the computer for 3 hours, finally managed to get my ESC flashed with SimonK firmware.

For reference, I'm using an AVR Pocket Programmer from Adafruit.  It has the USBTiny chip.  The ESC I programmed was a HobbyKing F30A.  It's runs on the ATMEGA 8A.

Also in the last two weeks bought a Digispark for the other aspect of this stuff I'll be working on. More to come on that... but not until later!