EP#357: Seventh Annual MacroFab Star Wars Christmas Special – We're the Rebel Codebreakers!

MEP EP#357: Seventh Annual MacroFab Star Wars Christmas Special – We're the Rebel Codebreakers!

Spoilers for recent Star Wars shows like Andor included for free!

This Year's Guests

• Josh Rozier
  • A business intelligence and data analytics professional for a large, east-coast insurance monolith.
  • In his spare time, Roz spends his time building and tweaking guitar amplifiers and pedals.
  • Co-owner of Empire Engineering with Stephen.
• Chris Kraft
  • A tinkerer currently working as a software engineer in the financial services industry.
  • Extensive background in 3d printing and building anything that seems interesting.
• Hyr0n
  • A systems engineer.
  • Hardware hacker of AND!XOR, a group that builds electronic badges for conferences and designs embedded system puzzles.

Topics

• Latest in Star Wars Media
  • What has been released since last year’s Star Wars podcast episode 307?
    • The Book of Boba Fett
    • Obi-wan Kenobi
    • Andor
  • The High Republic
• Stephen's Topic
  • A hammerhead corvette was able to move an entire star destroyer in Rogue 1. Is this even possible?
  • Given the movie footage, are the acceleration and velocity values reasonable?
  • Does the corvette have the thrust to do this?
  • What does this mean for other battles?
• Hyr0n's, Roz's, and Chris' Topic
  • Andor Widget Productivity analysis.
  • The Andor Post Credit scene… we see what those racks (parabolic facet joints) are for.
  • How many Superlaser Focus Lens facet joints are needed for Death Star?
  • How long would it take Narkina 5 prisoners to produce that many?
• Parker
  • Star Wars Episode: ai
  • Using ChatGPT3 to write a better Star Wars Movie than Disney can
  • Will have an opening crawl and 4 acts
  • Each person will have a roll in the script