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