Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham

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 (linuxunplugged.com)
• LINUX Unplugged - Tim Canham (linuxunplugged.com/guests/timcanham)
• Timothy Canham - People Profile - NASA Mars (mars.nasa.gov/people/profile/index.cfm?id=23038)
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - Robotic Space Exploration (jpl.nasa.gov)
• Mars Helicopter - NASA Mars (mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Overview)
• Mars Perseverance Rover | NASA (nasa.gov/perseverance)
• Cassini | NASA (nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html)
• Curiosity – NASA Mars Exploration (mars.nasa.gov/msl/home)
• Sun Microsystems - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems)
• Oracle Solaris - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Solaris)
• Fry's Electronics - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%27s_Electronics)
• Matplotlib — Visualization with Python (matplotlib.org)
• Elasticsearch (elastic.co/elasticsearch) — The Official Distributed Search & Analytics Engine

• BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon (bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2)
• BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon, Ep.05 The fourth astronaut (bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz4dn) — 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 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome)
• How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars - IEEE Spectrum (spectrum.ieee.org/nasa-designed-perseverance-h…)
• GitHub - F´ - A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework (github.com/nasa/fprime)
• F´ - A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework (nasa.github.io/fprime)
• Meet the Open-Source Software Powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (jpl.nasa.gov/news/meet-the-open-source-softwar…)
• github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu — Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.

• MythTV, Open Source DVR (mythtv.org)
• Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter (twitter.com/brentgervais)