Brent sits down with Tim Canham, Senior Software Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We explore topics including the hardware and software powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter; JPL's switch from Solaris to Linux; the open source projects, tools, and philosophy at JPL, ...and more.
Special Guest: Tim Canham.
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Links:
- LINUX Unplugged
- LINUX Unplugged - Tim Canham
- Timothy Canham - People Profile - NASA Mars
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - Robotic Space Exploration
- Mars Helicopter - NASA Mars
- Mars Perseverance Rover | NASA
- Cassini | NASA
- Curiosity – NASA Mars Exploration
- Sun Microsystems - Wikipedia
- Oracle Solaris - Wikipedia
- Fry's Electronics - Wikipedia
- Matplotlib — Visualization with Python
- Elasticsearch — The Official Distributed Search & Analytics Engine
- BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon
- BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon, Ep.05 The fourth astronaut — The computer that got us to the moon. The size of a briefcase, there had never been anything like it. Apollo 11 was “the first time software ran on the moon”.
- Impostor syndrome - Wikipedia
- How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars - IEEE Spectrum
- GitHub - F´ - A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework
- F´ - A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework
- Meet the Open-Source Software Powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
- quickemu — Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
- MythTV, Open Source DVR
- Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter
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