MEP 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