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The “in the pipeline” blog also contains the “things I won’t work with” section (https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thin...) which is one of the most awesome reads ever, at least for people with some practical experience of an organic chemistry lab.
this seems like a clever way of censoring internet access from within China - get the site owners to do the censorship for you.
Add some augmented reality to this and you could reenact the speeder bike scene from Return of the Jedi!
Setting up motion is easy enough if you have some scripting skills - a lot easier than the opencv approach in the article. There are articles online using motion with raspberry pi and a USB webcam to do the sort thing described in the article (eg http://m.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-remote-webcam/).