Ian Faust
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WiFi enabled 7-segment JSON display
I wanted to build an Internet of Things (IoT) device while also improving my skills in microcontrollers and in design. The main goal was to make a simple device while...
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Raspberry Pi Cameras for Tokamaks
I designed and built equipment necessary for Raspberry Pi Cameras to operate in the difficult environment of tokamaks. These cameras faced high magnetic fields, intense radiation bombardment, and substantial heat...
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Reverse Engineering of an EUV spectrometer
The SPRED spectrometer used on the ASDEX-Upgrade tokamak at the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching is a workhorse spectrometer for finding impurities in the plasma. Built by a...
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Tricubic spline interpolants
I wanted a straightforward, easy-to-install, and fast way of calculating tricubic interpolants on a three dimensional regular grid in Python and set out to do it myself. I extended the...
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Ishihara plates generated by Monte Carlo algorithms
In honor of some of my colorblind students at MIT, I wrote a code which can generate an Ishihara test from sets of simply-connected polygons. The outcome is a working...
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