Star Simpson
On The Metal
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Star Simpson shares her journey of discovering programming and hardware at a young age, highlighting her early experiences with tools like Borland and C++ that sparked her interest in making software.
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You can find Star on Twitter at https://twitter.com/starsandrobots.
- Super Munchers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchers
- Metrowerks CodeWarrior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWarrior
- RadioShack (RIP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioShack
- "Marilyn Monroe's World War II Drone Program": https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/upshot/marilyn-monroes-world-war-ii-drone-program.html
- Radioplane Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioplane_Company
- Piasecki PA-97: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_PA-97
- TacoCopter: https://tacocopter.com/
- TacoCopter on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742676
- TacoCopter's cameo on Stephen Colbert: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/53yh09/the-colbert-report-thought-for-food---tacocopter
- Wired on TacoCopter: https://www.wired.com/2012/03/qa-with-tacocopter/
- FAA Section 333 (now Section 44807): https://www.faa.gov/uas/advanced_operations/certification/section_44807/
- FAA Part 107: https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/part_107_summary.pdf
- Canidu: http://www.canidu.com/
- Boeing 737 MAX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX
- Road train: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train
- Checklists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checklist
- United Airlines Channel 9: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/726789-consolidated-interesting-things-heard-channel-9-thread-merged.html
- United Airlines ad from 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch/mU2rpcAABbA
- TRACON-II PC game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracon_II
- National Transportation Safety Board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Transportation_Safety_Board
- ValuJet 592: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592
- Amelia Earhart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
- Skunk Works by Ben Johnson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101438.Skunk_Works
- Lockheed Skunk Works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
- Clarence "Kelly" Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_(engineer)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_(Unix_shell)
- Who Owns the Sky?: The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On by Stuart Banner: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402086-who-owns-the-sky
- Turbulent Skies by T. A. Heppenheimer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1492469.Turbulent_Skies
- Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinget: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/438607.Hard_Landing
- SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am by Robert Gandt: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13010881-skygod
- Deregulation Knockouts: Round One by Tom Norwood: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4718255-deregulation-knockouts
- Convertiplane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertiplane
- The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey by Richard Whittle: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8008152-the-dream-machine
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