my name is simone yatch and i am an inventor
i uploaded my first robot on youtube in 2015 and it was a toothbrush helmet so it was a skateboard
helmet and it had a robot arm and a toothbrush on it then i made an alarm clock that slaps
me in the face to wake me up a robot that put lipstick on me a soup robot the serve me soup and
a lot of other machines of varying quality and entertainment value i came to be known as the
queen of robots i had so much fun building useless machines and to me it was really a way for me to
learn about electronics without having like my performance anxiety get in the way because if
you set out to build something that's gonna fail like that definitely gives you a lot of freedom
then like as i gained more and more skills i kind of just wanted to start building useful things
and initially it was just something i did on the side like not on my youtube channel
because i was like no i need to build like shitty robots every machine needs to have a punch line
my audience is never gonna be down for this and then i had a brain tumor
so i'm gonna have to have pretty extensive brain surgery and i'm probably gonna be out for a
while
and then you kind of like lose to give so i was like i'm just gonna start building
these very normal-ish projects and make videos out of them because it was what i wanted to do
so i converted a tesla into a pickup truck and um named her truck law i really need a pickup
truck for the work i do like i'm always hauling plywood and steel stock and tools
and there just were not any good electric pickup trucks on the market it took about a year of
planning like it was a year from having the idea and then my team and i just planning everything
out and trying to do research and make sure that it was feasible before we put an angle grinder
to a car and then the actual work ended up only being about a month the team and i were working
restlessly to get it done on time tesla was starting to gear up to release the cyber truck
and i really wanted to release mine before them i was nervous about how it was going to be received
in the car world because like it's a world that i don't know much about and that i know people don't
know much about me either but people were really sweet about it like i still get the occasional
thumbs down on the freeway and i'm like i see you there in your ford f-150 i appreciate your opinion
but be right back so there's a staircase and then there's a little seat and i also added this little
nook where my foot rest is so she has two beds i've been working a lot on my product company
so that's kind of my big goal for the future is running an innovation house and
i really just want to prototype products and invent real things and be able to throw sketches
over to teams of engineers and be like let's see if this could be a thing like that that's what
i'm working towards and that's been taking up a lot of my time and something that we're spooling
up to launch soon which i'm really excited about it definitely feels like a new chapter
the thing about like making videos on the internet is and over such a long time is that
it kind of needs to follow your life if you like want to do something that feels genuine
and it's actually you in the videos not like a character you're playing like it will evolve as
you evolve as a person if i wake up one morning and i'm like i never want to build another robot
i never want to make another video like that's okay like i really don't want to play a role of
my life or like who i am or the things i'm doing like i genuinely want to do the things i'm excited
about and that means that sometimes there's going to be curveballs and and things that like
my audience might not be down for and that's okay i'm trying not to make things for the algorithm
i promise this is not like a shtick i do it just genuinely never [ __ ] works
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