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Finding a better way is all I do.
My goal is to never own a gas car.
We're kind of a guinea pig generation.
I use humor as a way to digest anything.
I want to be an inventor in the real sense.
I really dislike soup, especially pumpkin soup.
I'm good at pitching my weaknesses as strengths.
It'd be really neat if I wasn't a Darwin Award winner.
Art scares me. I don't feel cool enough to be an artist.
I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.
Haircuts are never good. You always end up being unhappy.
I don't believe in prayer, I'm a pretty hardcore agnostic.
I just like having creative solutions to tricky situations.
I wanted to see if I could make a living off of having fun.
A lot of people make the mistake of setting the bar too high.
I try to view my YouTube channel as a logbook of personal interests.
I don't want to be brain tumor girl. I don't want this to be my thing.
I spent every day of third grade wearing a glittery purple cowboy hat.
I'm a part of a new generation of drivers that will only drive electric.
Burn out is such a real thing, especially when you are enjoying your job.
It's all men on my channel. All my comment sections are engineers at Google.
On my bad days, sitting down and meditating was the last thing I wanted to do.
To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.
I live on an old tugboat but feel that having a submarine would be the next level.
A lot of my self-worth is based on what I do. And if you take that away I just mope.
I think I've kind of carved out a sweet spot for myself by combining science and comedy.
Reddit is, it's like a tiger. It's great if it's your friend, but it can also eat you alive.
The way I approach my insecurities is by making sure I'm the first person laughing at myself.
I often get asked if I think I'm ever going to build something useful, and maybe someday I will.
I built a lot of stuff as a kid. But I was not interested in tech, I thought it wasn't really for me.
I love Sugru like I love duct tape. I basically just compensated for lack of building skills with Sugru.
I'm not an engineer. I did not study engineering in school. But I was a super ambitious student growing up.
I build a robot version of Jenna Marbles' dog, Kermit. It turned out a little bit worse than I had anticipated.
I would much rather be acknowledged for the work that I do rather than being a woman doing the type of work I do.
Electronics are getting more and more accessible now - you don't have to be an engineer to start building things.
I got one comment that I had a lot of double chins. I just laughed at it. I do have a double chin, so that's legit.
Programming is a pretty tricky thing to start learning. You need to combine it with comedy to get a wider audience.
I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.
Take it from someone who's never managed to keep a New Year's resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is hard.
I'm starting to feel like I can actually figure out how stuff works. I can actually pick stuff apart and have a chance of fixing it.
Getting slapped in the face with a plastic arm to wake up is not as painful as it might look - probably more humiliating than painful really.
There's an incredible amount of people that you can compare yourself with and be like, why am I not doing as well as that person? It's really hard.
I made a toothbrush helmet, which was a skateboard helmet with a robot arm holding a toothbrush. The idea was that it would brush your teeth for you.
I'm not very into politics but I love watching shows like 'Last Week Tonight' - people come for the comedy and they stay for the interesting questions.
I set out to make a sandwich using a robot arm. I put a knife at the end of it and tried to make it spread peanut butter over bread. It didn't work so great.
I'm still sometimes convinced that I'm just making all of this up and I'm actually somewhere drooling in a straight jacket. This success is such a bizarre thing.
Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy to do, so I make a machine that does it for me.
As for making video comedy, pretty much anyone can do it. When I got started, I just filmed it with my webcam and used iMovie to edit the video, which I still use.
In middle school and high school, I had straight A's, and I graduated at the top of my year. On the flip side of that, I struggled with very severe performance anxiety.
The Every Day Calendar is 0% Internet connected, so no apps, WiFi, bluetooth or computer programs are needed to set it up. Just plug it into the wall and you're ready to go.