Remote controlled panoramic head

I am fiddling with some radio control gear scavenged from a remote controlled helicopter I bought on sale. I want to make a pano head that can be remotely turned so I can make 360° panos with animals in the scene (but without me having to be near the camera). I got a larger and more powerful servo to turn the camera but I am confident it not will survive if I mount the camera and lens plus lens rail directly to the servo. I will therefore have to come up with some sort of bearing to mount between tripod and camera.

Musk Ox bull captured with remote camera trap

The ringed seal photo project got obstructed by too many polar bears on the ice... For safety reason we are supposed to move away from polar bears when we see them and not closer so I did not get any format filling photos. Rather than placing a remote camera at a seal hole I put it at a little pond near the research station where I had seen musk oxen forage for the lush green vegetation. After a few days the weather and light was good as an old musk ox bull went to the pond. I used a "retired" Nikon D200 with a 10.5mm fish-eye lens set to f/11 and on manual focus but with aperture priority exposure.

Virtual Zackenberg

I have photographic plans for the 2011 Zackenberg field season. I want to make many geoencoded "navigationable" panoramic photos with ambient soundtracks and display them on an interactive map. I am aware that I have often strived for including "everything" in my landscape photography, and with 360 degrees panos that is exactly what you are going to do! Hopefully, I will manage to do something beyond the mere documentation. Besides landscapes and wildlife, I want to cover fieldwork, facilities and life on the field station in general. Unfortunately the bandwidth is not good so I will not able to upload anything from up there other than notes on the progress.