History
The spider concept was inspired by the Vancouver Junkyard Wars, which were a localised version of the concepts in the TV shows Scrapheap Challenge and Junkyard Wars USA. As part of the 2006 Burning Man festival theme "Hope and Fear" the project received a grant from the Burning Man group to build the mechanical spider for demonstration at the festival.
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