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Circuit Break - A MacroFab Podcast
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Episode 98
Season 1
EP#98: Second Annual MacroFab Star Wars Christmas Special: Jar Jar on a Harley
- Taylor Smith
- Works at MacroFab as the Production Account Manager
- Manage all of our large customers as they go through prototyping to full production
- Graduated from Texas A&M last fall
- Joined the MacroFam early this year
- Favorite Star Wars Character?
- Organic
- Taylor: Loves the locks on Qui-Gon Jinn
- Stephen: Bossk
- Parker: Storm Trooper #38
- Robotic
- Taylor: R2D2 even though he slept through Rogue One
- Stephen: IG-88
- Parker: Not K-2SO
- Thrawn Books
- Organic
- Tech that stood out in Rogue One
- Data Storage Devices
- Three different storage methods
- USB Flash Drive: small amount of data.
- Data Tape: looks like an external hard drive. Contains Death Star plans.
- 8-track tapes style
- Some sort of other kind of storage device that the plans get transfered to
- Looks solid state
- Newer format then the empire’s data tape?
- Why doesn’t C3-PO have a wireless transmitter built in?!
- There does not seem to be a ton of wireless communication
- No Drop Box
- Most radio transmission seems to be analog in nature
- Trans-intergalactic data system
- Star wars servers
- Data Tapes stored in giant rooms which require physical access by manually manipulating robot arms
- Three different storage methods
- Transmission of data
- Besides radio there seems to be a distinct lack of wireless transmissions in StarWars.
- To transfer Death Star plans they needed a giant dish.
- No digital communication over RF?
- No lag with hologram communication via hyperspace
- Analog data travel through hyperspace?
- Death Star plans data size?
- 160km in diameter: 1.72×10^16m cubed
- Couldn’t find engineering drawings for an aircraft carrier
- 3D file for a building would be around ~100MB but probably 300MB looking at solidworks stuff
- 900m cubed area goes into a death star 19,111,111,111,111.111 times trillion
- 5,733,333.333 (5.7million) petabytes
- Solar freaking laser roads
- No hacking in Star Wars
- Reason similar to Battlestar Gallactica?
- Death Star accuracy
- Hitting the top of the tower a the end of Rogue One
- See images for maths and figures
- Scott Manley: Death Star Orbit from Planet Surface
- Data Storage Devices
- CGI Tarkins and Leia in Rogue One: Future for The Last Jedi and other Star Wars movies
- Will we see CGI Carrie Fisher?
- Parker hopes she won’t die off-screen
- Taylor thinks there will be a nice parting gift for her
- Stephen thinks they’re going to kill all of the old cast (including Mark Hamill)
- Will we see CGI Carrie Fisher?
Tags: electronics podcast, IoT, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, Podcast, Rogue One, Star Wars, Star Wars Christmas Special