After being built in 2009, it spent the next 12 years in 1 storage shed or another, manely as a home for spiders.  It was gradually disassembled for parts.  The idea was to make a precise, motorized mount for a giant mirror lens.  

Movement was based on a simple 360 servo driving a rubber wheel to move large wooden panels around.  Nowadays, such a thing would definitely use 3D printed gears & magnets.

The azimuth was a lazy susan.  The servo was pressed down by an elaborate piece of flexing wood.

The elevation was another elaborate spring board pressing a servo onto a semicircular panel.  Some wheel joints formed bearings for the camera platform.

The servos were driven by a vintage 72Mhz controller.  The transmitter antenna was so beat  up, this proved very unreliable.

The joysticks were not precise enough to get very accurate movement.  The high servo stall speed further added to the inaccuracy.  It couldn't point accurately enough to photograph anything.

This was built in a time when lions didn't realize their apartment space was finite & there wasn't going to be any more space.  It took the entire apartment.

There was an attempt to tether the transmitter, but this apparently didn't work either.  It got tangled & suffered from different interference.

It was transported on castor wheels & had a small string to pull.  It should have been a rope.   The camera platform had a counterweight.  The giant mirror lens this was built for was pretty bad.  The lens cap was lost at some point.  A large carbon fiber tripod proved better at supporting the mirror lens.

It seems to have been used twice.  It was rolled a long way up a hill once to try to photograph the space station.  It proved worthless & the shot was gotten by paw.  Another time, it seems to have been used at night in a field, but there's no record of what for.