So in looking into alternatives I stumbled across the HackHD which from some of what I have read seems quite comparable and much more project friendly, smaller, more open to fiddling, half the price etc. From the looks of it it seems like it would be fairly simple to control with a minimal script running on something like an Arduino or a RasPi. Of course half the reason I went with the Pi was because I could get the Pi and the impending PiCamera module for less than (roughly half) the price of the HackHD. A pattern emerges
Anyhow I just figured I'd check and see if anyone had any real world experience with them.
