{"id":922,"date":"2012-03-09T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/09\/diy-telerobot-for-photographing-wildlife\/"},"modified":"2012-03-09T01:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T01:34:00","slug":"diy-telerobot-for-photographing-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/09\/diy-telerobot-for-photographing-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY telerobot for photographing wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/nnnghtH9Po4\/diy-telerobot-for-photographin.html\">DIY telerobot for photographing wildlife<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\" Img Beetlecam-Wildlife-Photo-Robot-Lion-Closeup-1331226515393\" height=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/img_beetlecam-wildlife-photo-robot-lion-closeup-1331226515393.jpg?resize=598%2C398\" width=\"598\"><\/p>\n<p>Wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas and his brother Matt devised a remote-controlled rover outfitted with a DSLR camera to get up close and personal with elephants, lions, and buffalo. After their first trip to Africa with their BeetleCam, they improved upon the design with a sturdier exoskeleton, telerobotic camera tilt, and HD video. The men have since gone back to Africa and captured some amazing lion images. If you want a BeetleCam of your own, they&#8217;ll custom build it for you starting at GBP \u00a31,250. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burrard-lucas.com\/beetlecam\/2011-project\">BeetleCam Project 2011<\/a> <em>(via <em>IEEE Spectrum<\/em>)<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=3a1aacbad57419590ce67f304f61f4df&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=3a1aacbad57419590ce67f304f61f4df&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/nnnghtH9Po4\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIY telerobot for photographing wildlife: Wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas and his brother Matt devised a remote-controlled rover outfitted with a DSLR camera to get up close and personal with elephants, lions, and buffalo. After their first trip to Africa with their BeetleCam, they improved upon the design with a sturdier exoskeleton, telerobotic camera tilt, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-eS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}