OMG, here is a link to a Rube Goldberg contraption that someone built using various Lego Motors and gears:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73571158@N00/2994678821/sizes/l/
This device ostensibly takes panoramas. Notice the motorized "thingy" that activates a mechanical shutter release cable on the lower right!
Anyway, some of you might think it interesting. Others might think it bizarre.
Michael