I ordered one of these manual turntables too 
, but still keep that challenge to hack the electric one (when I get it) with an Arduino
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well I’ll keep watching this thread, that’s for sure😁
I was considering motorizing a lazy susan using an external belt drive hooked up to a servo motor or possibly with a geneva drive mechanism in between the motor and the pulley. And just rotating it a bit, capturing the position, rotating some more capturing the image and continuing until I had the whole thing.
Anybody that is going to be using a different turn table will likely want to make sure that it’s as black as possible and to randomly arrange some of the markers around the turntable to give the device something to judge distance on.
Alternatively, it looks like you could attach an external switch to the turn table and just only move it when the camera isn’t recording.
EDIT: If you’re really cheap a pair of pie tins and a whole mess of marbles would probably work for a basic turn table, you’d just have to add something for the motor to attach to the center tin.