Simone Giertz

I'll put that on the back of my autobiography too.

Some stuff is my fault.

Yeah.

I think kind of in the more fun, whimsical department rather than Shitty Robots, I built recently this music box.

So like a small music box that kind of has a barrel with little spikes and it plays a song.

But I did a large version of that that pops a sheet of bubble wrap and then plays tones into a pan flute.

So yeah, you can actually program it to play different songs.

That one kicked my butt in so many creative ways and it was such a pain.

I think that is probably the like weird, funny project that's taken me the longest and like the biggest engineering effort.

So if you, it all came from me realizing that if you pop bubble wrap and you pop it right in front of the opening of a pan flute or like one of the pipes, you can have it play different tones.

So that's what it does.

So I built this music instrument off of that.

Yeah, so basically, I mean, one of the big issues that I had, so I worked with, as of a year and a half back, I hired an engineer, Stu, so we were collaborating on it.

But a big issue that we had was feeding in the bubble wrap

sheet and like making sure that it feeds in straight and doesn't get skewed because you need to make like the popping feet, which is where you program this barrel to pop different bubbles need to be so perfectly aligned on the bubble of the bubble wrap for it to pop in the right location.

Why is it so exciting?

Making that barrel was a pain as well.

I had to get this rotary set up for my CNC.

And yeah, it was a lot of work.

But that was really fun.