12/10/2026
Did you guess it? 👀
That tangle of servos, wires and 3D-printed brackets is FollowCam, a camera rig that films you with nobody holding the camera. Set it up, start moving, and it physically pans and tilts to keep you in the shot.
Here's the part that matters: our students built it from scratch at the CODE Hackathon that closed out Kick-Off Week. No brief, no manual, just "what if the tripod followed you?", a whiteboard, and one very long night of code, wiring and 3D printing.
This is what "learning by doing" actually looks like. Not a lecture about robotics or computer vision, a real, working thing you can stand in front of, days into the semester.
And they're not stopping there: what you're seeing is v1. The FollowCam crew is still building — now focused on the software side to make it track even smarter.
So, what did you think it was? Drop your guess below 👇 and tell us what FollowCam should do next.