@TheSecondVariation@graz.social @futurebird@sauropods.win So pill cameras are about 25mm long and 10mm in diameter, which is about the size of the larger bugs myrmepropagandist mentioned...

If you could make those move somehow you'd be most of the way there.

That said, I don't know how ants would react to a pill with a lamp on it shuffling through their nest, but it'd probably affect whatever ant behaviour you're trying to observe.

@kaiiak@madverse.city If anyone's wondering where this is from: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3306214.3338573

(no i dont know why it bubbled into science journalism in 2026)