I'm impressed at the work that went into this.
Should have left it with the one or two original designs. The concept is getting way too complicated, and too cute by half.
"Too many details" has been the downfall of many things like this.
Considering these "machines" are supposed to only flicker into visibility occasionally, we seem to be dealing with the world's luckiest photographers.
It's worth remembering that when aliens, with technology a thousand years ahead of ours, do land probes on our planet, odds are excellent that they would look, and act, exactly like pigeons, or fish.
Or people.