[HN Gopher] Electric Giraffe (2016)
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Electric Giraffe (2016)
Author : uticus
Score : 36 points
Date : 2024-07-25 01:04 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (electricgiraffe.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (electricgiraffe.com)
| Aardwolf wrote:
| Silence after 2016 despite photos of new wiring, I wonder what
| happened to it...
| mattlondon wrote:
| I often see this sort of thing and wonder a lot about the
| individuals involved. Things change, shit happens, people move
| on etc. Often fascinating, sometimes sad to hear about deaths
| or bereavements etc, but even in those cases it feels somehow
| "right" to enjoy their work after they've gone.
| acomjean wrote:
| "nocturnal creature of the Playa" in the text would seem to
| indicate it's a burning man project (never been but I know a
| couple people that go).
|
| Things in the world are a lot more fleeting than I expected,
| so I enjoy them in the moment.
|
| This giraffe is a fun, amazing passion project.
| bckr wrote:
| > Things in the world are a lot more fleeting than I
| expected
|
| But you can't kill an idea. The reproduction of the thing
| is more thingy than the thing, since "things in the world"
| are expected to be less fleeting.
|
| Electric Giraffe dies, long live Electric Giraffe
| swid wrote:
| I saw the giraffe less than a year ago at Maker Faire, so they
| have kept it working.
| dang wrote:
| It goes back to 2006 (https://web.archive.org/web/2024000000000
| 0*/https://electric...) but I guess we'll put 2016 in the
| title. Thanks!
| block_dagger wrote:
| (2016)
| c54 wrote:
| I was lucky to meet this giraffe and its creator in 2016. It's
| quite impressive and clearly a labor of love. Has strong home
| garage hacker vibes. The creator was excited to show us around
| and answered any technical questions we had.
|
| One aspect which stood out was that the head and other parts had
| touch sensitive "pet" detector cells each of which consisted a
| short, inch wide plastic flap connected at its base to some
| internal circuitry and held out from the base at a slight angle
| to resemble a sort of robotic fur equivalent. When you brushed
| your hand on them, the giraffe reacted and either nuzzled its
| head a bit, made some sounds, etc
|
| Anyway I only briefly browsed the site so I'm not sure if he goes
| into more detail there. It's cool to see this blast from the past
| and I wonder what the creator is up to nowadays.
| neilv wrote:
| The YouTube videos are "unavailable".
| andygcook wrote:
| The videos on the site didn't work on mobile for me. Found this
| YouTube video with some footage of the electric giraffe and an
| explanation from the maker:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfG2Ur5TGHQ
| throwup238 wrote:
| I wonder if the Electric Giraffe requires a Department of Mutant
| Vehicles permit to be on the Playa. It's not technically an art
| car but that might not matter
| kayfox wrote:
| Last time I saw it, it had DMV stickers on it, so I think yes.
| kayfox wrote:
| Followup, in this photo you can see a plate on the back of
| the Giraffe that has white and blue stickers on it, those are
| day and night BRC DMV permits: https://electricgiraffe.com/ga
| llery3/index.php/2005/burning-...
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