Mr. Ahron Wayne contacted me via my Extreme Macro Facebook page to tell me about a Kickstarter project that he and a team of engineering students have been working on. It's a motorized scanning macro camera:
I wasn't all that excited, because I shoot single frames of active subjects, until I saw it track a moving critter in the video! Pretty cool :)
This isn't a paid add, or an endorsement of the Kickstarter campaign, I just thought it was a really interesting project and I know a lot of you are going to be interested in it as well :)
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Ah, I see you found my "Follow that ant" Video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWRalj7BizI
Bug following is another one of those things that I'd really like to do well. So far all I do is feed the ant or whatever a bit of colored cake, and follow that. But I think it would be cool to be able to do it based on shape, put the scanner out in a field, and have it learn autonomously for months.
The ability to track a moving insect was really impressive!
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