{"id":525,"date":"2006-09-16T11:17:35","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/16\/not-web-20-but-mondo-spider-is-cool\/"},"modified":"2006-09-16T11:17:35","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T15:17:35","slug":"not-web-20-but-mondo-spider-is-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/16\/not-web-20-but-mondo-spider-is-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Web 2.0, but Mondo Spider is cool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Occasionally I like to break free from the Web 2.0\/blogosphere-centric focus of this blog, just for the heck of it (I think the last time was when I posted a photo slideshow from my vacation in Florida back in the spring, which I cleverly justified by claiming I was demo-ing Bubbleshare). This one was so cool I couldn’t resist: Matt Marshall of VentureBeat.com had the bright idea of asking Christine Herron, a venture capitalist with the Omidyar Network who blogs at Christine.net, to write about some of the things she saw at the recent Burning Man festival, which I have always kind of wanted to go to — and she did<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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One of the things she mentioned was the Mondo Spider — a “vehicle” of sorts that carries one passenger\/driver, and looks like a gigantic metal arachnid, with articulated legs that lift and swing forwards. Extremely cool. The Spider is the brainchild of a group of mechanical geeks led by Jonathan Tippett of Industrialus<\/a>, who started the project as part of Vancouver’s Junkyard Wars. There is some amazing video<\/a> on YouTube of the Spider walking in its first public demo last month. <\/p>\n

I haven’t been able to confirm it yet, but I have a feeling Jonathan is related to NowPublic founder Michael Tippett (more Spider video here<\/a> too).<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b><\/p>\n

Jonathan sent me an email and confirmed that he and Michael are brothers, and also mentioned some of the co-creators of the Mondo Spider — including Leigh Christie (frame\/drive train), Alex Mossman (“power pack” or hydraulic system) and Charlie Brinson (force calculations and coordination) as well as a key patent holder on the leg design, Joe Klann. On top of that, he added, were half a dozen “very dedicated volunteer fabricators.” Incredible work.<\/p>\n

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Occasionally I like to break free from the Web 2.0\/blogosphere-centric focus of this blog, just for the heck of it (I think the last time was when I posted a photo slideshow from my vacation in Florida back in the spring, which I cleverly justified by claiming I was demo-ing Bubbleshare). This one was so … <\/p>\n

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