> Giertz has previously branded herself as "the queen of shitty robots" on her YouTube channel, where she employs deadpan humor to demonstrate mechanical robots of her own creation to automate everyday tasks; despite working from a purely mechanical standpoint, they often fall short of practical usefulness, for comic effect.[9] Giertz's creations have included an alarm clock that slaps the user,
I think the highlights of her maker-career is Truckla, her Tesla she repurposed as a truck and drove to the cyber truck reveal. And her everyday calendar, which is a board of 365 LED and you can click each for everyday you complete whatever your everyday goal is and end the year with a lot board. As I recall it met and exceeded its kickstarter.
Her initial period as the queen of shitty robots has little to nothing to do with what she does today or how she approaches problems.
She has talked about the anxiety that came with going from “no one can really criticize my stuff because it’s meant to be bad” to “this is actually supposed to be good, but is it good enough?”
https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/simone-giertz-inventor...
(voice of machine by Adam Savage)