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How Grant Imahara Made Me a Better Maker

How Grant Imahara Made Me a Better Maker

Mike Senese

By Mike Senese

Mike Senese

Mike Senese is a content producer with a focus on technology, science, and engineering. He served as Executive Editor of Make: magazine for nearly a decade, and previously was a senior editor at Wired. Mike has also starred in engineering and science shows for Discovery Channel, including Punkin Chunkin, How Stuff Works, and Catch It Keep It.

An avid maker, Mike spends his spare time tinkering with electronics, fixing cars, and attempting to cook the perfect pizza. You might spot him at his local skatepark in the SF Bay Area.

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I first met Grant in early 2010 at a Discovery Channel event, and over the years we maintained a friendship, and I maintained a deep awe of his talents as a builder and as person.

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Prankenstein: Watch Kari Byron and Tory Belleci’s TV Pilot that Never Got Made

Prankenstein: Watch Kari Byron and Tory Belleci’s TV Pilot that Never Got Made

Mike Senese

By Mike Senese

Mike Senese

Mike Senese is a content producer with a focus on technology, science, and engineering. He served as Executive Editor of Make: magazine for nearly a decade, and previously was a senior editor at Wired. Mike has also starred in engineering and science shows for Discovery Channel, including Punkin Chunkin, How Stuff Works, and Catch It Keep It.

An avid maker, Mike spends his spare time tinkering with electronics, fixing cars, and attempting to cook the perfect pizza. You might spot him at his local skatepark in the SF Bay Area.

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TV is a strange beast — what we watch usually seems so effortless and enjoyable, but many people don’t realize how much work never gets seen at all. And this isn’t just in footage that gets left on the editing room floor after squeezing weeks of shooting into a 30 minute episode (22 minutes with […]

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Grant Imahara’s Hollywood Dream Machines, and the Spider Robot that Almost Killed Him

Grant Imahara’s Hollywood Dream Machines, and the Spider Robot that Almost Killed Him

By Grant Imahara

Grant Imahara

As a co-host of Discovery Channel’s MythBusters, Grant has swum with sharks, spun a merry-go-round with a shot from a sniper rifle, hung beneath an airborne helicopter, fired cheese from a cannon into the San Francisco Bay, let two dozen tarantulas tap-dance on his head, dropped a BMW from a Sikorsky, cut a car in half with a rocket sled, and built many awesome robots. All in the name of science. Before MythBusters, Grant lit the lights in R2-D2’s dome and gave the Energizer Bunny his beat as an animatronics engineer and model maker for Industrial Light & Magic. His work appears in several blockbusters including The Matrix sequels, Galaxy Quest, Terminator 3, and Star Wars: Episodes I-III (though he is in no way responsible for Jar Jar).

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As a MythBuster, model maker, and combat roboticist, I’ve hacked everything from R2-D2 to the Energizer Bunny.

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Grant Imahara’s Ten Favorite Robot Building Blocks

Grant Imahara’s Ten Favorite Robot Building Blocks

By Grant Imahara

Grant Imahara

As a co-host of Discovery Channel’s MythBusters, Grant has swum with sharks, spun a merry-go-round with a shot from a sniper rifle, hung beneath an airborne helicopter, fired cheese from a cannon into the San Francisco Bay, let two dozen tarantulas tap-dance on his head, dropped a BMW from a Sikorsky, cut a car in half with a rocket sled, and built many awesome robots. All in the name of science. Before MythBusters, Grant lit the lights in R2-D2’s dome and gave the Energizer Bunny his beat as an animatronics engineer and model maker for Industrial Light & Magic. His work appears in several blockbusters including The Matrix sequels, Galaxy Quest, Terminator 3, and Star Wars: Episodes I-III (though he is in no way responsible for Jar Jar).

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When I think about all my builds over the years, I find there are a few components I use over and over again — kind of like my own personal Lego set.

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Tested Shows off the Making of Adam Savage’s Comic-Con Akbar Costume

Tested Shows off the Making of Adam Savage’s Comic-Con Akbar Costume

By Ken Denmead

Ken Denmead

Ken is the Grand Nagus of GeekDad.com. He's a husband and father from the SF Bay Area, and has written three books filled with projects for geeky parents and kids to share.

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At Comic-Con each year, Mythbuster and Make-friend Adam Savage likes to dress up in a geeky costume and challenges fans to find him in the crowds. This year, his costume was an amazing recreation of Admiral Akbar from Star Wars, and over at Tested, they’re showing off how it was built.

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