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The always wonderful Simone Giertz accidentally panders directly to me personally by choosing to make a robot out of stained glass.
posted by cortex on May 19, 2023 - 33 comments

At roughly $30 a bottle (guess it’s a billionaire’s beer). Meanwhile, the only successfully running Tesla truck model still belongs to this plucky inventor, aka The Queen of Shitty Robots (self-chosen appellation). [more inside]
posted by JustSayNoDawg on Apr 17, 2023 - 102 comments

1. Bad robotics maven Simone Giertz makes Teeth Wall, a midi-powered 12-note xylophone of chattering teeth.
2. Swedish artist Love Hultén runs with the concept with a 25-note sampler synthesizer also made of chattering teeth: the VOC-25.
posted by cortex on Jan 12, 2021 - 20 comments

Simone Giertz built herself a proud parent.
posted by sevenyearlurk on Apr 17, 2020 - 28 comments

The queen is back: Simone Giertz didn’t let brain surgery stop her. What’s next? "In the six months since the YouTube star and inventor had a large brain tumor [previously] that could have left her paralyzed, blind, or a completely different person removed, Simone Giertz [previously] moved her workshop out of her house, jumped back into vlogging for her nearly 1.4 million subscribers, gave a TED talk, and kickstarted an electronic calendar — all while rocking a silvery 'supervillain scar' that runs down her scalp, flirting with her hairline." [more inside]
posted by homunculus on Oct 24, 2018 - 14 comments

Simone Giertz has a brain tumor. She explained in an email to her Patreon subscribers.

Good news in all of this is that it's probably noncancerous, and there's a very small risk that I'll die from it. Bad news is, well yeah, I have a brain tumor.

I really feel like I should put more jokes in here to make sure that you know that I'm alright. Because I really am.

posted by Miss Cellania on Apr 30, 2018 - 32 comments