Ian Ballinger Embedded hardware and firmware engineer

Evidence ledger

Claims should survive inspection.

This page makes contribution, outcome, evidence, and uncertainty independently legible. It is intentionally more conservative than a project pitch.

SystemContributionObserved outcomesPublic evidenceBoundary
Commandable ingestible bioelectronic platform System architecture, electronics, embedded firmware, wireless integration, power characterization, validation, and failure analysis.
  • Commanded in-vivo release of a viable bacterial payload
  • At least six days of gastric operation with the payload barrier intact
  • Approximately −102 dBm staged in-body receiver sensitivity
  • Months-long always-available BLE telemetry in device studies
 Read the 2026 MIT thesis, Thesis code and reproducibility materialsResidence, authentication, and release were established in distinct experimental traces; therapeutic efficacy was not evaluated. This self-hosted copy is the author’s thesis document pending MIT DSpace publication.
Long-duration connected experiment infrastructure BLE hardware, body-area networking, C#/.NET services, cloud databases, analysis interfaces, deployment, and collaborator support.
  • Supported experiments with operating windows up to 100 days
  • Deployed to geographically distributed collaborators
  • Enabled remote sponsor demonstrations and experiment diagnosis
 Restricted or not publicSource and study records are not public because they include collaborator and sponsor-controlled material.
Reusable embedded-device development platform Originated the working architecture, defined interfaces, built reference implementations, integrated contributor branches, and coordinated system behavior.
  • Shared C++ behavior across mobile and embedded targets
  • Reproducible Zephyr and nRF build environments
  • Containerized remote compilation and automated flashing
  • Parallel contribution across firmware, sensing, and device-control work
 Restricted or not publicMost program repositories remain private; the leadership claim is based on repository history and delivered integration work rather than public commit volume.

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