Hey, it's Flora, and you're listening to Science Friday.

There's no shortage of YouTube how-to videos.

There's the practical DIY ones where, you know, someone walks you through how they fixed the sliding doors on their minivan.

But on the other end of the spectrum, there are the makers.

People who have an

idea in their head, sometimes quixotic, and show their process of bringing it to reality.

In the 2010's inventor Simone Yetch began making videos kind of right on that dividing line between

practical and absurd. Like, what if you had a robot that could feed you soup?

You printed all these parts, because you can't get a claw that needs to pick up soup just like that.

Or a robot that could cut your veggies for you.

The chopping machine is a revolutionary invention that helps you chop just about anything.

Chop leaden.

The neighbor's cat that peas on your lawn.

Tomatoes.

Or a drone that could cut your hair.

We duct tape a trimmer to the bottom of it, and this is a very bad idea.

The projects grew more and more ambitious, like converting a Tesla sedan into a pickup truck,

like way before the cyber truck was even a glint in Elon's eye.

Fast forward to today, and remember, 10 years in YouTube years is like 200 regular world years,

and Simone is still creating. Now designing and building inventions that are still quirkily

useful, like a fruit bowl that changes sizes, depending on the fruit that's in it, but that also

look like something you'd find in a high-end design store.

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