# Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham

URL: /show/jupiter-extras/87/
> 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.

- Show: [Jupiter EXTRAS](/show/jupiter-extras/)
- Episode: 87
- Date: 2022-07-10
- Hosts: brent
- Guests: timcanham
- Duration: 00:58:06
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/56e6db0a-de62-46a7-b4db-e28d3fc3845a/f776470d-c3de-46b5-8843-58b84721813c.mp3



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### Episode Links

  * [LINUX Unplugged](https://linuxunplugged.com/ "LINUX Unplugged")
  * [LINUX Unplugged - Tim Canham](https://linuxunplugged.com/guests/timcanham "LINUX Unplugged - Tim Canham")
  * [Timothy Canham - People Profile - NASA Mars](https://mars.nasa.gov/people/profile/index.cfm?id=23038 "Timothy Canham - People Profile - NASA Mars")
  * [NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - Robotic Space Exploration](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ "NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory \(JPL\) - Robotic Space Exploration")
  * [Mars Helicopter - NASA Mars](https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Overview "Mars Helicopter - NASA Mars")
  * [Mars Perseverance Rover | NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance "Mars Perseverance Rover | NASA")
  * [Cassini | NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html "Cassini | NASA")
  * [Curiosity – NASA Mars Exploration](https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/home/ "Curiosity – NASA Mars Exploration")
  * [Sun Microsystems - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems "Sun Microsystems - Wikipedia")
  * [Oracle Solaris - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Solaris "Oracle Solaris - Wikipedia")
  * [Fry's Electronics - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%27s_Electronics "Fry's Electronics - Wikipedia")
  * [Matplotlib — Visualization with Python](https://matplotlib.org/ "Matplotlib — Visualization with Python")
  * [Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/ "Elasticsearch") — The Official Distributed Search & Analytics Engine
  * [BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2 "BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon")
  * [BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon, Ep.05 The fourth astronaut](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz4dn "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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome "Impostor syndrome - Wikipedia")
  * [How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars - IEEE Spectrum](https://spectrum.ieee.org/nasa-designed-perseverance-helicopter-rover-fly-autonomously-mars "How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars - IEEE Spectrum")
  * [GitHub - F´ - A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework](https://github.com/nasa/fprime "GitHub - F´ - A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework")
  * [F´ - A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework](https://nasa.github.io/fprime/ "F´ - A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework")
  * [Meet the Open-Source Software Powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/meet-the-open-source-software-powering-nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter "Meet the Open-Source Software Powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter")
  * [quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu "quickemu") — Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
  * [MythTV, Open Source DVR](https://www.mythtv.org/ "MythTV, Open Source DVR")
  * [Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter](https://twitter.com/brentgervais "Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter")