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Fun fact - the cameras that captures Perseverance's landing are also Linux based and vim is installed - at least on the later model that I worked with.
by inamberclad 3y ago
Fun fact - the cameras that captures Perseverance's landing are also Linux based and vim is installed - at least on the later model that I worked with.
- zelphirkalt 3y agoHopefully some engineer on the ground used Emacs to access the command line remotely, to run Vim, so that we are back on equal footing :D
- hhh 3y agoWhat make & model of camera are these?
- inamberclad 3y agoThey're USB cameras. I don't know the vendor, but I worked with 4 cameras wired back to a small Linux computer.
- kam 3y agoFLIR Chameleon3 connected via USB to a Intel Atom Linux SBC running ffmpeg to encode the video. See EDLCAM in https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00765-9 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00765-9
- retrochameleon 3y agoI am really surprised they are using essentially off-the-shelf USB cameras. I guess if it works, it works, but surprising that they didn't need to design circuitry to work in a space environment. I am guessing the requirements for circuitry operating on Mars isn't quite as much as a spacecraft or satellite, but it is still getting hit with cosmic particles and solar radiation with no atmosphere.
- TheCoreh 3y agoUsing it with a 20 minute delay between keystrokes and their results must be interesting
- M95D 3y agoI'm sure they didn't connect to it via the internet to send keystrokes.
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- Trekker666 3y agoHuge delays between keypresses is what vi (and vim ofc) was designed for.