This is worth developing semi-commercially through Kickstarter or the like. There's a market for this sort of thing, as demonstrated by the similar but hand cranked LomoKino camera: https://microsites.lomography.com/lomokino/

I'm a big fan of projects like this as it makes it very cheap to experiment with weird/exotic film stocks. This design is so advanced that you could shoot a 10 minute short film for a couple hundred $.