Design & prototype
Mechanisms, CAD, fabrication and physical iteration. Move a concept toward something testable.
INDEPENDENT ENGINEERING & INVENTION
Ideas need
working parts.
Mechanical design, physical prototypes and useful technical tools. DCLXVI LC connects the question, the model and the thing you can actually use.
Explore the work01 / RECONFIGURABLE GEOMETRYWave surface
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Illustrative pin-surface study; no production dimensions.
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SELECTED WORK
Make complexity
useful.
Public tools and a foundation in physical invention.
01 / CIVIC DATA
Clear information.
Room for your own judgment.
A public guide to the Wisconsin Rapids data-center discussion, with sources, assumptions and gaps made visible.
Visit Data Rapids02 / COMMUNITY TOOLS
nekoosa.org
A useful local starting point.
An independent guide to Nekoosa’s places, services and community resources, connecting people directly to the organizations behind them.
Explore the community guide03 / INVENTION FOUNDATIONS
One tool.
Many forms.
Many forms.
Reconfigurable forming tools.
Benjamin’s adjustable pin-mold research explored how one forming tool could produce many different contours.
2014 Lemelson–MIT “Use it!” winner · Read the profileTHE PRACTICE
From first principles
to a useful result.
DCLXVI is an independent engineering practice led by Benjamin Peters. The work spans mechanisms, fabrication, instrumentation and interfaces that make technical information easier to act on.
Benjamin’s invention backgroundMeasure & understand
Instrumentation, technical analysis and visual explanations. Make the important variables visible.
Build useful tools
Focused websites and engineering workspaces. Put the result where people can use it.
A QUESTION WORTH BUILDING AROUND?
Let’s give it form.
Bring the problem, what you’ve tried and what a useful result would look like.