The person behind DCLXVI LC
Ben Đ Om, also known as Benjamin Peters, leads DCLXVI LC in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. His work connects mechanical engineering, fabrication, education, and independent research.
DCLXVI brings that experience into an engineering consultancy and a public place to examine new ideas: the designs, their assumptions, and the experiments that can move them forward.
DCLXVI is the Roman numeral for 666. Ben chose the name primarily as a reminder to examine the locus of charge: LSM assigns fractional local charge contributions, with magnitudes such as 1/6 e and 1/3 e, rather than requiring each local contribution to be an integer multiple of e.
Recurring 666 and golden-ratio values are often memorable placeholder inputs and callbacks to that name. Real operating values are selected through calculation, hardware constraints, measurement, and tuning. A recognizable number does not establish a physical law, an optimum, or a demonstrated capability. Derived results retain their stated equations and assumptions.
Selected work & documented experience
Ben’s MIT work investigated rapidly reconfigurable pin molds for fabrication. The Lemelson-MIT Program recognized him as its 2014 “Use it!” Graduate Winner.
Engineering research · 2014 recognition
Read the Lemelson-MIT profile ↗At Nekoosa High School, Ben developed a hands-on CAD and fabrication classroom. Harbor Freight Tools for Schools documents the program and his work with student design, prototyping, and testing.
Previous teaching work · published prizewinner profile
Read the teaching profile ↗A public dashboard published by DCLXVI LC to help people examine the proposed Wisconsin Rapids data center through source documents, visible assumptions, and engineering comparisons.
Published community-information project
Explore Data Rapids ↗Read the evidence standard, inspect the public fusion audit, or contact Ben about research support.
The Lattice Structure Manifold program explores a geometric route from the structure of space to the structure of matter. Its public reading path includes definitions, constructions, calculations, and the experimental questions still to resolve.
The wider portfolio connects that research to proposals for energy, fabrication, communications, transport, and human life. Each project presents its current evidence and the next development step.
Start with the problem you want to solve and what a useful result would look like.
Engineering consulting