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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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
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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
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