Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham
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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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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. Sponsored By: Join the Party! The Jupiter Membership Party: Join the party and get exclusive content. 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
Chapters
- 0:00 Brunch Intro
- 4:39 Tim's New Focus
- 10:03 The Solaris-to-Linux Transition
- 16:12 Tim's Tech Adventurousness
- 19:36 Advice For Young Engineers
- 22:06 Tim's Personal Gadgetry
- 22:50 Space & Automotive Industry Overlaps
- 28:18 Mining In Space
- 32:15 Linux' Adaptability
- 34:43 Open Source at JPL
- 40:14 F Prime
- 42:44 Open Source as Mentorship
- 47:53 F Prime on the Raspberry Pi
- 50:07 Tim's Mentorship
- 53:09 A Gift from Tim
- 55:40 Outro and Thanks
- 55:56 Love for Linux Unplugged
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