Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
The Electric Giraffe

Location:   Expo Hall  110   

A huge robot giraffe that is an ever changing project, growing, changing, adapting to new technologies and sponsorships. The giraffe is "Grazing on the Frontiers of Technology" and hopes to offer something new to see, hear and feel each year.

Web site: http://www.electricgiraffe.com

Project photo.

About the Maker(s)

Lindsay Lawlor Lindsay Lawlor [
San Diego born and raised, this crazy "only child" never went to college or engineering school, he just reads the manuals and makes things work. In the case of the giraffe, first he wrote the manual, then he built the beast!
http://www.electricgiraffe.com

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