Phil Hocker

More on do-it-yourself: The homebrew robotics folks have lots of components to solve the timed-camera-reposition problem. Check www.pololu.com. Control via a USB connection. Hope this helps.

Lots of great ideas in this thead. Building a simple rig with a small stepping motor, maybe a worm drive (steal it from your window blind adjuster) wouldn't be hard or costly. - If you're going to do much of this, investing in a basic motor-control PCI plug-in computer card you can program would be easier than you think.