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From Disney Animation and Imagineering to Adafruit with John Edgar Park

September 11, 2019
This week we chat with John Edgar Park. John has worked as an animator and Imagineer for Disney and currently produces amazing electronic tutorials at Adafruit. We get into his background and some easy ways on how you can incorporate electronics in your projects.
This week we chat with John Edgar Park. John has worked as an animator and Imagineer for Disney and currently produces amazing electronic tutorials at Adafruit. We get into his background and some easy ways on how you can incorporate electronics in your projects.

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Topics

00:02:57 - Growing up in NYC
00:04:13 - Background in Theater
00:06:49 - Making background
00:15:13 - Professional animator for Sony and Disney
00:22:38 - Disney Imagineering
00:25:35 - MAKE: Television
00:31:15 - Build videos for Adafruit
00:37:01 - Favorite Projects
00:42:59 - Importance of digital tools
00:46:17 - How to get started in electronics
00:51:19 - Synthesizers
00:54:01 - Where to find John
00:54:50 - Make or Break Shop Update

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