Simone Giertz
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I mean, just cold email.
Like, I had no in or anything.
But I was like, hey, I want to do this.
And they didn't get back to me.
Nobody surprised.
And I was like, well, I have this...
thing I built I might as well post it on the internet so that's why I made the little gif and I posted it on slash r slash shitty robots and I think it got like 50,000 views and I was like wow and from there I just kept on building things and I think within six months it was my full-time job
Yeah, so I built it off of this robot arm called Mi Arm.
So it's just this acrylic robot arm.
And I think it has three server motors.
And it's all controlled by an Arduino, all the electronics.
It was a kit.
So I assembled it.
I mean, the arm came down.
So it's like, I mean, I just programmed it to come down to my mouth and then poorly brush my front teeth.
Yeah.
Trial and error.
Trial and error.
Oh, gosh.
No, it was definitely a struggle.