RESEARCH & TOOLS / CAMERA RIG

LookoutPut a new point of view in motion.

Lookout is an anchored camera rig with independent pan and tilt commands, a control board and a virtual compute host. Plan an observation platform and watch the rendered camera view change with its kinematic motion.

Build with Lookout Explore the design

Includes assembly, starter wiring and executable virtual JavaScript.

ASSEMBLY PREVIEW/CAMERA

Lookout · Camera rig concept illustration; the 3D preview uses the actual preset geometry

Static illustration · loading 3D

Orbit the actual starter assembly. Open the workbench to edit or run it.

9components

15starter connections

0.78 kgestimated component mass

ESP32-S3 + AI modulecontrol platform

Lookout · Camera rig, an illustrated research & tools assembly

Concept illustration · inspect actual geometry above.

A COMPLETE STARTING POINT

Get to know
what's inside.

An anchored pan/tilt-style camera, power and control assembly. All 9 components and 15 starter connections remain editable in your own project.

Camera mounting studiesPan/tilt controlAI observation experiments

View the included component types

Camera rig base
Camera mast
Position servo
RGB camera
AI compute module
2S battery · 2.2 Ah
5 V buck regulator
ESP32-S3 · virtual controller

YOUR FIRST THREE EXPERIMENTS

Build understanding.
One change at a time.

Use the starting assembly to ask better questions about your design. Save a copy, change a parameter and compare what happens.

Inspect the design

Run the pan and tilt sweep and open the camera preview.

Try a change

Inspect the camera's data connection and the two servo PWM channels.

Compare and learn

Use a rendered observation with a supported AI adapter to prototype a visual interaction.

camera-rig.jsVIRTUAL API

function step(robot) {
  robot.drive(0, 0);
  if (robot.brownout || robot.battery.voltage < 6.25) { robot.display('🪫'); return; }
  robot.servo('pan', 0.55 * Math.sin(robot.time * 0.6));
  robot.servo('tilt', 0.16 * Math.sin(robot.time * 0.9));
}

The full, editable starter script is included in the workbench.

KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TESTING