MAKER: Transcendental Problem-Solving
MythBuster Adam Savage talks about making his way growing up.
TALKING SHOP: Adam Savage in the MythBusters machine shop at M5 Industries in San Francisco: “This is my favorite room in the building; I love the precision here.”
Interview by Paul Spinrad
MAKE projects editor Paul Spinrad caught up with Adam Savage in San Francisco during production of MythBusters’ ninth season. Earlier that day, Savage had found a local source for industrial quantities of citric acid, which he and co-host Jamie Hyneman needed to determine whether Alka-Seltzer and water could produce enough pressure to break out of a jail cell.
Paul Spinrad: How did you get started making things as a kid?
Adam Savage: As I said in my welcome ...
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