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== Contact Information == |
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Real Name: Tarun Pondicherry<br /> |
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Email: tarunpondicherry at gmail dot com<br /> |
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IRC: tarun2000<br /> |
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Lists: server-devel@lists, devel@lists, uruguay-xo-coordination [at] groups [dot] google [dot] com<br /> |
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== Skills == |
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Software: PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++, Java, PIC Assembly<br /> |
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Hardware: Digital Logic Design, PIC Microcontrollers |
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== OLPC Work == |
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I'm currently a summer intern working on the [[Educational Blogger Project]] with [[User:Gregorio | Greg Smith]] as my mentor. The goal is to provide a simple interface that kids can use to connect to blog tools like Blogger.com. The system will be web based an installed on the XS. [[Blog_Educativo_Plan_del_Proyecto#Milestones | Milestones]] are finalized and we are waiting for user feedback on the mock ups. I'll also be posting [[User:tarun2000/Progress_Report | weekly progress]] reports. |
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== About Me == |
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I'm an undergraduate at Princeton University deciding between Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Physics for a major. For the most part I'm a self taught programmer and basically learned coding from reverse engineering FOSS stuff, Google and Wikipedia. I wouldn't say I'm a stereotypical programmer geek, but I am enough of one that go into withdrawal if I don't write code for a while. Right now, I'm very interested in graphical compilers and physics animations. I think anyone can learn programming and want to make it easy for people by developing a graphical language that makes programming as easy as describing the solution. |
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I also love to teach. On weekends during spring and fall I teach electronics courses which I designed to elementary school children at a local community program. I spend a lot of time also writing tutorials on whatever I work on to put on my [http://www.betarun.com/ website] (yes, I know its in desperate need of an update and looks like a kindergartener made it). |
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I've worked on a few random projects over the past few years (hobby and otherwise). Following are some of my favorites: |
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*[http://www.betarun.com/Pages/HexEditor/ Hex Editor] - Hex Editor is an Intel Hex File editor I wrote when I couldn't find on that did what I wanted. Its really proof of "necessity is the mother of invention". I was trying to program a chip for a high school project and got frustrated when my teacher gave me the idea to develop a new editor as well as great input and guidance. |
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*SMART Pot - This was my senior year project where I designed a system to wirelessly monitor the water level in house plants and alert people when they needed to be watered. I pretty much did everything from design to soldering to coding and etching the PCB. I attribute my love of assembly to this project. |
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*[http://w3.pppl.gov/elvis/ ElVis] - ElVis is a scientific visualization program I worked on for two summers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. I mostly added remote monitoring of data and some new types of graphs. Most of my improvements were for simulations being done for [http://www.iter.org ITER] and to research the Motional Stark Effect. |
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