American electronics, robotics, radio control expert and television host on Mythbusters Grant Imahara was featured as the main speaker for this year’s Mouser Empowering Innovation Together hosted event that happened on August 18th in Phoenix, Arizona. It was called the 2016 Microchip MASTERs Conference and Grant was able to share with the attendees where he gets his inspiration for the robotic characters that he works on, such as Star War’s R2-D2. At the end of his talk he gave some time for some Q&A sessions as well as allowed a few moments to meet and greet with the audience, and take photos with them. The Los Angeles, California native studied at the University of Southern California where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and eventually incorporated his learning with the cinematic world during his college years. After he graduated, he landed a job at Luscasfilm’s THX as a engineer and worked his way up to the visual effects division where he stayed for nine years. Over his career, Imahara worked on several big productions such as a few of the Star Wars franchise films, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and The Matrix Revolutions. In August 2014, he joined the crew of Mythbusters and became a co-host of the show along with Adam Savage. Earlier last month Imahara traveled to Arizona to be a speaker at the 2016 Microchip MASTERs Conference and was able to give a lot of insight on what he does for a living.