When President Barack Obama was inaugurated as this nation’s 44th
President, he not only made history as the country’s first African
American president, but history was also recorded using a special gadget
called the Gigapan. The Gigapan is a computer controlled rig that can
allow photographers to remotely shoot high resolution images or take
time lapse stop motion video over long periods of time. Sadly, the real McCoy is pretty pricey at about $900. Unless, of course, you’re Lego obsessed, like photographer Jim Catan, and can create something very similar with a pilot of plastic bricks and Mindstorms interface at a fraction of the cost.
