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Grant Imahara, Host of 'MythBusters' and 'White Rabbit Project,' Dies at 49:
Grant Imahara, an electrical engineer and roboticist who hosted the popular science show MythBusters and Netflix's White Rabbit Project, has died. He was 49.
Imahara died suddenly following a brain aneurysm, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. "We are heartbroken to hear this sad news about Grant. He was an important part of our Discovery family and a really wonderful man. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family," a representative for Discovery said in a statement on Monday.
An electrical engineer and roboticist by training, he joined Discovery's MythBusters in its third season, replacing Scottie Chapman and was with the show until 2014 when he left with co-hosts Kari Byron and Tory Belleci. The trio would reunite in 2016 for Netflix's White Rabbit Project which lasted for one season. On MythBusters, Imahara used his technical expertise to design and build robots for the show and also operated the computers and electronics needed to test myths.
While part of the Mythbusters team, he sky-dived and drove stunt cars, on film sets he came into contact with some of the most iconic characters in screen history, installing lights onto Star Wars' R2-D2, creating the robot Geoff Peterson for The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson and working on the Energizer Bunny.
Also at Washington Post, Variety, Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday July 16 2020, @06:54PM
Not all varieties of engineering are created equal in terms of curb appeal. My brother works at the advanced manufacturing lab at Ford; he works with 30 kinds of 3D printers, Augmented Reality kits, and VR kits every day. We took my kids in as a dry run for their "Take Your Kids to Work Day," and they had a blast with the 3D printed objects and AR & VR for half a day.
Honestly not every kid will be drawn to even that sort of thing, but for those with mechanical minds it's catnip.
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