YouTuber, mechatronics engineer, fake woodworker, and aspiring Disney princess. Sometimes I make things. Proud to be a 👩🏻🔧👸🏻
NEW VIDEO NOW LIVE! My last project in the old shop 💔 sent it off with a good hurrah by getting every single machine dirty on my way out 🙃 link in bio!
Since everyone asks:
Jumper by
Safety glasses by
Boots by but they got cropped :(
YARD SALE SETUP IS UNDERWAY! 9am-3pm, don’t be early 🙃 8124 Holy Cross Place, Los Angeles
See you there!
YARD SALE / MOVING SALE TOMORROW AT 9am in LOS ANGELES!!! 2 miles north of LAX, I’ll post the exact address at 8am.
*don’t be early. Being early is as rude to my generation as being late used to be. 😂 Don’t be that person*
It’s a pretty standard moving sale + lots of scraps and garbage from old projects (want some iron man molds? Or a few bones from skellybones? lol). There will not be many tools for sale as I still need them, but there will be a few. Lots and lots and lots of very discounted partially used bottles of BotalToat Resin though! Also, if you want a wall or two… I’m gonna take down all the walls I put up in the garage. It’s just painted luon though so lower your expectations 😂
Lots and lots of Xyla sized clothes including a pair of Xena workwear steel toed boots, a microwave, a queen sized bed that doesn’t fit in my new place, random crap that makes me question if I have a hoarding problem… you get the gist! Also my canoe will be there but *not for sale* just for people to see if you want. And we have some random merch (including sample products that didn’t make the cut to the store, talk about exclusives!)
**keep in mind that I no longer live at that address and my shop has mostly been moved out, so you won’t be able to see all my tools / setup the way it was in my videos. You’ll still get to see the garage and help take down a wall or 2 if you want though!**
IT’S HERE! The 100% CARBON FIBER upgrade Iron Man deserves 🥲 (yeh? Come at me vibranium nanotech fictional somethingorother) I made a Forged Carbon Fiber Iron Man helmet for Maker Secret Santa this year, check it out!! Now live on YouTube, link in bio!
Still so proud of how this build for PUBG Mobile came out! ICYMI it’s on YouTube :)
I’m a meme account now I don’t make the rules 🤷🏻♀️
Also that last slide is my new merch 👀👀👀 shop.xylafoxlin.com
That feeling when Arduino themselves shared your project 🥹🥰😭
The Internet of Hugs? Xyla Foxlin collaborated with Becky Stern to create an open telepresence hug toy, which connects to the Arduino IoT Cloud and translates your hug into a soothing vibration on the other stuffed animal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6gj8VzrHBo
🚨NEW VIDEOOOOO🚨 I put this computer in this teddy bear because I’m lonely and wanted a hug 😔 link in bio if you, too, need a hug
In what feels like a lifetime ago but was really only 2016, I was the teenage CEO and founder of a tech startup back when IoT was the hot new tech on the block for consumer products. 😅 That journey took me to several CES’s, SXSW, the White House, and I spent most weekends in San Francisco or New York raising money, while moonlighting as a college kid in Cleveland Ohio.
Eventually my investors had pushed me to drop out of school and in a bizarre moment of clarity while on the phone with the Thiel Fellowship (they only fund dropouts) I realized I *needed* to go back and finish my engineering degree. I shut the company down, refunded my kickstarter backers, and graduated college.
7 years later, I’ve teamed up with to open source my product: internet connected stuffed animals that let you hug loved ones from anywhere in the world. When one toy is hugged, it’s paired one gently vibrates out the hug in real time, and if they’re both being hugged you can feel each others heartbeat.
We made a simplified arduino based version and published the instructions and code so you can make your own at home!! Check it out, link in bio :)
Spending my 5th day home sick(ish- finally on the mend!) wishing I was back in JTree with the girls ❤️ shouts out to this badass gang of trad mommy’s (this is a climbing joke not a tradwife thing to be clear ahaha) and Luci for putting together the best girls weekend ever.
Apparently I’ve been really feelin’ the still posts lately. Anyway NEW VIDEO OUT NOW it’s maybe accidentally the dumbest wildest thing I’ve done on YouTube so CHECK IT OUT. I launched a weather balloon 116k feet into the solar eclipse out in Blackrock Desert Nevada!
Link in bio 🚀
📸 on FILM by .space
I made a really cool and new to me thing this week but I’m not allowed to share it so instead here’s a picture of me completely and utterly out of my element
Bummed to have missed Makers Camp this year but boy was it worth it to see these two magical wonderful beautiful people finally get married. Thanks for letting me crash so many special occasions over the years, from Valentine’s Day, to Christmas/New Years, to your 10th anniversary dinner, and so many other countless occasions. Everyone needs an Alex and Allison in their life ❤️
If you’re not sneezing purple at the end of the day, are you really working with purpleheart??
Things have been pretty rough so I yeehawed out of the city and summited Half Dome yesterday ❤️ (love the daily lottery permit system!) I promise I’m doing my best to get these videos out for you!
Happ Birth to the crazy lady who talked me into buying an airplane
Celebrating my 26 bday by getting robbed while my rental house was tented for fumigation. Never mind that it sat empty for 6 months before I moved in, over 3 years overdue for fumigation. (And never mind the landlord not offering me a hotel and prorated rent per the LAW).
My neighbor heard the burglars in the house on Friday night and called 911, but they wouldn’t send anyone over because of the tent. So I’ve had to wait over 3 days wondering how bad it was going to be. I’m still cataloging the damage but I’m sooo grateful my hard drives with my next 2 videos were spared and still sitting on my desk, as was my editing desktop. (Doesn’t fit out the window they came in through lol)
Happy birthday to me 🎉🥴
Ps. They stole my pillow case. What kind of robber comes prepared with an oxygen tank to survive fumigation and forgets to bring a big robber bag???
PPS. So wildly grateful for my best friends who cleared their weekends to take me to Disneyland as an escape from it all.
Basic LA Instagram girl or avid airplane nerd????
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If you recognize this specific bandsaw we live in the exact same corner of the internet 👀👀
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I’m stranded in the STL airport overnight while they test the tornado alarm system every 3 minutes and regretting not taking my own wings out on this trip 🥴
Me ➡️ My Day ➡️ My Garden Production ➡️ Why I’m Still Trapped At Home Posting Stupid Sh~t on Instagram
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Guess who finally has Covid? Not sure if this will cause a delay in my May video coming out, but I’m doing my best to rest up and get back into the shop!
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Some film gems of my shopwarming party that .space took on his great-grandfather’s camera 🎞
PS. Sunday nights are perfect for catching up on my latest video if you haven’t seen it yet! Link in bio 😉
I wish I could put into words the undying gratitude I have for Lindsay’s friendship, work ethic, generosity, and fabulous attitude and humor. It is safe to say she is *the* reason my dream shop now exists; but more than that she was there for me when I was alone and trying to move into a new place— from helping me find cheap furniture on OfferUp, setting up my house, to bringing me little houseplants to make it feel like a home. This woman gets more done in a single day than I do in a week, it’s insane. Thank you Lindsay, and for anyone not following her yet, idk what you’re doin’— get on it! And go watch her shop build video. It’s in my stories.
Me pretending Fusion 360 isn’t horrified at what I’m trying to do to it
Just some highlights from Yuri’s Night 🚀🪐👩🚀
2 years ago today was the maiden voyage of my lovely cedar strip canoe I handbuilt alongside my uncle 🛶
She’s got some dings and scratches now, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Those are the scars of mileage and genuine use!!
P.S. anyone know good flat water paddling spots around Southern California? I’ve been struggling since moving out here
When I was but a smol engineer-to-be in college, I was awarded a handful of small but meaningful grants by organizations who realized how much impact $500-$1000 could have on a broke college student. It wasn’t much, but it paid for the tools and supplies for some projects that laid the foundation of my career as an engineer, artist, and maker. I’ve always wanted to pay it forward and give other young makers and engineers the kind of help that I was lucky enough to get back then, and now — that’s exactly what I’m going to do!
I’m so over the moon to share with you all that a super generous patron of mine offered to fund a series of small awards for underrepresented, aspiring makers who’ve got a cool project in the works. For more information, or to submit your application, just head to my website and click on “Maker Fund Application” — I can’t wait to hear from you all!
https://www.xylafoxlin.com/maker-fund
Applications will close on April 22.
New herrrrrr! She’s gone purple 💜😈💟
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Thank you for all the support on my last reel! I’ve added my merch link to my bio, as well as my patreon link ❤️ here’s some of my merch available, and yes I’m shamelessly using @jackman_works superior modeling skills for my own selfish gain
LIFE UPDATE ICYMI- I am being evicted from my shop and moving next week :( my 101 year old landlord passed away (this was not disclosed to me when I signed the lease) and the daughter is kicking me out to sell the house- my lease is up in January. Stay tuned 🥲
🎉4️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🎉 So incredibly humbled and grateful for every single one of you. Except that one punk who commented 2 years ago that he didn’t like my eyeliner. F off to that dude 😅
I FINALLY MADE MY FIRST COSPLAY!!! @pubgmobile challenged me to create a real life costume of the new skin and she looks absolutely badass so I had to give it a whirl. What do you think?!? (New video is now on youtubeeeeeee)
Now available for any of the scrap pandas in your life. Live fast, eat trash. Shop.xylafoxlin.com ❤️ or link in stories!
It’s finally
You ever sneezed so hard you duplicated yourself?? I had SO MUCH FUN getting entombed in plaster in my latest YouTube video LINK IN BIO CHECK IT OUTTTTTT
🚨NEW VIDEOOOOO🚨 I cloned myself with the help of my friends @jasonmfx and @melanie_licata, 2 incredible SFX makeup artists. I’m duplicatingggggg 👯♀️👯♀️👯♀️👯♀️ Link in bio!!!
Ok maybe @bekathwia isn’t the only bully around here 😅
Let the record show that @bekathwia is a h8r and a plier bully 🥲😅 Jkjk im so so stoked we finally filmed a collab together!!!! 👀👀👀
Honored to be in the middle of nowhere with @bps.space mysteriously representing Vogue magazine for Blackrock Fashion Week™️ please rate my fashion from 1-raccoon hat Accessories include: no showers for a week, a solar eclipse, poop buckets, and @andrewa2061’s giant 2 stage rocket
Get ready with my procrastinator self for a lovely Halloween party at my friends’ house!! However I ended the night somehow at a wild Beverly Hills house party dj’d by @skrillex where some dude was like “why are you wearing a box?!? And not a slutty Angel costume or something?!?” And if that’s not my biggest W of the year, I dunno what is
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