Doug Ellison (@doug_ellison), Engineering Camera Team Lead at NASA’s JPL and Martian photographer, spoke with us about low power systems, cameras, clouds, and dust devils on Mars.
The best paper for learning more is from NASA’s JPL site: The Mars Science Laboratory Engineering Cameras
Ariel Waldman (@arielwaldman) spoke with us about how science, art, and all of the other disciplines can build a better world.
Ariel does many amazing things, it is hard to list them all.
Homepage: arielwaldman.com
YouTube: arielwaldman
Science Hack Day: sciencehackday.org and Twitter @ScienceHackDay
Space Hack directory of ways to get involved: spacehack.org
Patreon page: arielwaldman
Book: What's It Like in Space?: Stories from Astronauts Who've Been There
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts council, look at niacfellows.org to apply.
Ariel fell in love with NASA while watching the When We Left Earth miniseries.
Ariel Waldman (@arielwaldman) spoke with us about how science, art, and all of the other disciplines can build a better world.
Ariel does many amazing things, it is hard to list them all.
Ariel fell in love with NASA while watching the When We Left Earth miniseries.
We discussed CubeSats with their co-inventor, Professor Jordi Puig-Suari, Professor of Aerospace Engineering at CalPoly SLO and co-founder of Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.
The 2017 CubeSat conference is in San Luis Obispo, CA on April 26-28. More details at CubeSat.org.
Information about CubeSats at CalPoly SLO can be found at PolySat.org.
Tyvak is hiring for a number of different positions: tyvak.com/careers.
For more satellite goodness, we spoke with Patrick Yeon of Planet about their CubeSat-based platform and deployment mechanism in Embedded episode 153: Space Nerf Gun.
Stuart McAndrew's OzQube-1 is the listener whose PocketQube (not CubeSat!) we talked about: http://OzQu.be
Thank you to Embedded Patreon supporters for Jordi’s microphone!
Patrick Yeon of Planet Labs spoke with us about making satellites.
We discussed a method of using orientation to control drag to control speed. While Patrick wasn't sure what he could say about GPS receivers on satellites, another site describes them as part of the flock.
Sign up to get access to the huge Open California data set.
Planet has many applications and their blog shows off some interesting finds, such as identifying illegal gold mines encroaching on rainforests, quantifying ports with computer vision, counting trees and classifying agriculture crops, fire mapping, and cloud detection.
They are still hiring, apply using the email embeddedfm at planet.com will earn us (err, not you) more free tshirts.