engineering

Simone Giertz

Simone Giertz is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Simone Giertz rather than just read about it. In short: Simone Luna Louise Söderlund Giertz ( YETCH; Swedish: [ˈjæʈːʂ] ; born November 1, 1990) is a US-based Swedish inventor and YouTuber who creates robot and maker videos. Her early videos in the 2010s involved robots that intentionally failed at everyday tasks, leading to the nickname "Queen of Shitty Robots".

Key takeaways

Simone Giertz belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Simone Giertz to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Simone Giertz from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Simone Luna Louise Söderlund Giertz ( YETCH; Swedish: [ˈjæʈːʂ] ; born November 1, 1990) is a US-based Swedish inventor and YouTuber who creates robot and maker videos. Her early videos in the 2010s involved robots that intentionally failed at everyday tasks, leading to the nickname "Queen of Shitty Robots". Later videos involved more useful projects, maintaining a comedic, rather than educational, tone. She has also designed products to sell, creating an online shop, the Yetch Store, in 2022. Originally from the Stockholm area, Giertz was self-taught in robotics, gaining experience with hardware while studying at an advertising school. She created her YouTube channel in 2013 and posted her first robot video, featuring a tooth-brushing helmet, in August 2015. She continued to post short videos showing her creations, including "The Breakfast Machine" and "The Wake-up Machine" in November 2015, each of which received one million views. After a February 2016 video featuring a lipstick robot, Giertz gained the attention of presenter Adam Savage and began working on his series, Tested.com, in California. Giertz presented her robots during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and a TED talk. Giertz attempted to train herself to be an astronaut in a 2017 video series, which included two of her most viewed videos. She worked on larger projects around 2018, including a branded video to promote the television drama Westworld. Giertz was diagnosed with a noncancerous brain tumor in April 2018. She posted humorous content about her health during two rounds of treatments over the following year. As she shifted away from her "shitty robots", Giertz began designing products. Her first release was the Every Day Calendar, a habit-tracking product that she had developed during her recovery and funded using Kickstarter in 2018. Giertz gained wider fame for Truckla, a project documented in June 2019, in which she and collaborators modified a Tesla car into a pickup truck; she was then invited to the launch of the official Tesla pickup truck. In the 2020s, several of Giertz's videos involved projects for her home and dog. Since 2022, she has sold her designs through the Yetch Store, including a jigsaw puzzle with an intentionally missing piece and a folding clothes hanger.

Early and personal life

Simone Luna Louise Söderlund Giertz was born in Stockholm on November 1, 1990. Her mother is television host Caroline Giertz, who worked on reality television programs about ghost hunting, and her father worked as a television producer. The youngest of three siblings, Giertz was raised in a middle-class household in Saltsjö-Duvnäs, Sweden (near Stockholm). Giertz is a descendant of Lars Magnus Ericsson, founder of Ericsson. In elementary school, Giertz was interested in woodworking. She has named the Disney cartoon character Gyro Gearloose as one of her earliest inspirations. Giertz felt obsessed with her grades in school and developed a fear of failure. At the age of 16, Giertz spent a year in China as an exchange student. She stayed in Hefei, where she learned basic Mandarin. During her stay, she also made an appearance on a Chinese sitcom. Her parents got divorced while she was in China, which she was informed of the day she returned. Three months later, she enrolled in a Swedish boarding school in Nairobi, where she learned Swahili. After graduating from high school, she returned to China, spending six months in Nanhai, Guangdong. Giertz studied physics at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, a research university in Stockholm, but dropped out after a year. In 2012, she became an editor for Sweden's official website, working on the Chinese-language version. Giertz lived on a houseboat in Stockholm, which she had converted from a 1940s ship, from 2012 to 2016. In 2013, she began studying advertising at a trade school, Hyper Island in Stockholm. Giertz's interest in electronics began that year, when she attended a woman's talk about hacking hardware. To fulfill a curriculum requirement, Giertz had an internship in San Francisco as a product designer at the engineering company Punch Through Design, where she worked on projects with Arduino microcontrollers. After she quit her internship, her US visa lapsed, and she returned to Sweden to live with her mother. She also held brief jobs in technology journalism. Giertz was self-taught in robotics, making use of open-source hardware such as Arduino. Giertz has said she strongly identifies as atheist or agnostic and that her diet is mostly vegan or plant-based.

Career

Early career and "Queen of Shitty Robots" (2015–2018)

Early videos and Tested.com

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Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Simone Giertz

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Simone Giertz claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Simone Giertz before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Simone Giertz ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Simone Giertz

In research: Simone Giertz appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Simone Giertz in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Simone Giertz is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1990 births, 21st-century Swedish inventors, 21st-century women inventors, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Simone Giertz outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Simone Giertz in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Simone Giertz means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Simone Giertz out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Simone Giertz in simple terms?

Why does Simone Giertz matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Simone Giertz?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Simone Giertz.