Grant Imahara (2016)

Hey man! Congrats!! BTW I still have that Reddit sticker on my toolbox.

It's hard to say! Probably Homemade Diamonds. But each explosive is so different. C4 is really quick pop. ANFO is what you use to move big things. Gasoline makes pretty flames.

Freeze ray. Jousting simulator robot. And I might have made a flying hoverboard. But you know, you'll just have to see for yourself!

Not much down time these days. I'm an old school FPS guy, using mouse and keyboard. Just started playing Overwatch. Currently, JunkRat is my favorite character to play. (But I'm trying to learn all the others too.)

That's a common misconception. They don't "hang out" outside of work. But they respect each others' opinions and ideas and work together quite well.

I built one of the gauntlets for a project I did with Mouser Electronics (for whom I am their "Celebrity Engineer" spokesman). It had a working laser that popped out the forearm and was able to pop a balloon across the room. So... pretty good so far.

1 MILLION. From the first moment I saw the trailer, it was like I was right back in my childhood. Plus, I've known John Knoll since I was at ILM. He's a good guy and he gets it. CAN'T WAIT.

Doing press for a streaming show is very different from broadcast. With broadcast, they're all like "Coming soon..." "Coming real soon..." "Coming next week..."

With streaming, they don't want to talk about it until it's truly, actually LIVE on the site.

How old is he and what are his interests?

HAHAHA ALL PART OF MY PLAN

Both.

It's going to happen. Just saw the guys last week and they're moving along. It's going to happen eventually.

Yes, of course! Through Reddit, Twitter and Facebook, I can reach out immediately and directly to fans.

OH "my thrusters" = "MythBusters" LOLOLOLOLOLOL

That took way too long for me to figure out.

When I started in hobby electronics, you had to subscribe to magazines for new project ideas, Radio Shack still had millions of electronics parts, and there was no internet. It was not as easy then as it is now, since there's a huge online maker community.

I have a personal shop where I make things for myself and friends. Recently, I made a Ghostbusters reboot pack scaled down for my friend's 6-year-old daughter.

Mei takes too long. I like to move around a lot.

1. Thanks! I was nervous, but we had a blast.
2. White Rabbit is a literary reference to Alice In Wonderland. You follow him down the rabbit hole to the unknown. That's pretty much what we do on the show.
3. WRP should be available to watch globally right now! Enjoy!!

No. However (and this goes for all of us) if we were ever abducted Taken-style, it would probably be Jamie. "I... uh... have a particular set of skills."

TRUE STORY: Jamie used to have a vacation rental in Mexico. There was a tropical storm and he went down to check on it. He packed a chainsaw and a generator.

EDIT: He packed ONLY a chainsaw and a generator.

Austin Powers voice She's 98.6 degrees, baby!

No, that is a new thing, and I likely won't be participating.

You... may be on to something there.

I used to have a Porsche Cayman. I miss that car. It never met a curve it didn't like at any speed. I miss my Toyota Tacoma truck. It was raised and had a lumber rack. I currently have a Tesla Model S. It's smooth and powerful, although a bit large for my taste.

OH MAN I just made the connection. Overwatch wasn't as huge when we filmed this build earlier in the year. If we had done this recently, I might have gone with Mei instead of Doctor Horrible LOL

Geoff is safely in storage. All he needs is a battery charge and he'll be ready to go!

White Rabbit Project will have me, Tory and Kari. We'll be building things, talking to interesting people, goofing off, and telling stories that are implausibly weird. Pretty much what you have come to expect from us. But the new show is slicker, prettier, the stories are bigger, and most importantly, everything on our show is based on fact. Unlikely historical events that ACTUALLY happened. Real cutting-edge tech that EXISTS or is about to exist. SCIENCE that is happening now. Interesting pop culture phenomenon.

Our executive producer from MythBusters John Luscombe approached us with a project idea for Netflix. We worked together with Martyn Ives (another MB alum) and Ryan Senter to develop White Rabbit Project.

I have a Ricoh Theta S 360 camera. I'll post some pictures later on my FB page!

It produced industrial-grade diamonds. Not the kind you might wear in a ring. Unless you wanted a really abrasive ring.

NICE

I tried an early version of autopilot. Decided I would wait for a later software update. I am happy with how the car works now. No need to hack it LOL

Really? Arrows didn't seem super effective. I'll give him another shot, tho.

I started with a Leatherman Wave and had that for many years. Then I started carrying the Charge ALX because it had more tools like allen wrenches.

No. But you can join FREE for a month!

Exactly. It just became available today.

We are able to delve deeper into our stories. Also, we get to be "inside" of the re-creations. For example, I walk through a prison and ride in a helicopter as I talk about Pascal Payet, the guy who broke out of prison with a helicopter.

Possible! Unless I go back to Burning Man.

Yep, that's me working on a hangar bay. It was an awesome time in my life. Just wrote a post about it on the MythBusters Facebook page.

LINK: https://www.facebook.com/MythBusters/photos/pcb.10154241764463224/10154241763603224/?type=3&theater

Um, yeah. Sorry about that.

With MythBusters, we tried to fail often and early. Everything starts with a mockup or a small scale experiment. In ten years, we had very few mishaps happen, which is a very good ratio indeed.

Thanks! I usually leave programming to the end, since I find it pretty straightforward. I like it because it's pretty clean and easy to modify. Moving a hole on a piece of aluminum or re-soldering a circuit board is an extra level of pain in the ass. I can program most variations of BASIC in my sleep, and I'm reasonably good with C but I need to get better.

We can only hope! This sort of thing needs to gain momentum to signal to Netflix that people want to see more. So tell your friends!

Started building when I was very young. LEGO is a tremendous tool. As I got older and more experienced, my access to tools got better, and the robots became more complex. Retired from BattleBots. Currently.

I would try the forums at SparkFun and Adafruit. Lots of cool project blogs there along with parts.

Hard to say. My top three are: Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan, Empire Strikes Back, and The Matrix. Fave Star Trek episode: Inner Light (TNG) with a close second Darmok.

At San Diego Comic-Con in 2011. We were at the Discovery Channel party late at night.

Thankfully nothing super bad. Which is pretty good considering we routinely worked with all sorts of explosive, large machinery, prototype robots, firearms, and flames. I think I sprained my ankle dropping down through a roof in my underwear on the safety mat that was supposed to protect me. (The underwear was because of trying to fool a thermal security sensor.)

Although I don't own any, I was super impressed with 9mm Glocks. The SIG Sauer P228 and Beretta 92FS are my other faves (smaller grips).