User:Bendertx
Hi, I'm Ben.
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Benjamin Groves
- "Make Better"
- Carrollton, Texas
- (psst, I know where all the good food is)
- Automated Test Engineer by trade (in the slot-machine industry)
- Long background in videogame Art and Design
- Legally ordained minister
- Church of the SubGenius
- Amen, Reverend Ben!
- Amateur Radio Licensee (General) - KF5WYZ
- Various Internet Locales:
DMS
- Joined in January 2013
- Looking to expand horizons, meet people and work on projects
- Small handful of projects at first, with increasing momentum
- Participated in the Lemons Race team from December 2013 to March 2014
- Designated Chairperson of the DMS Amateur Radio Committee in February 2014
- Elected to DMS Board of Directors in March 2014
Ongoing Projects
- (in-progress) Building an RC Car with camera gimbal, as a precursor to the quadrocopter build below
- (in-progress) Slowly planning a FPV quadrocopter/drone build that will transmit video to an Oculus Rift
- (in-progress) Collaborating on a combo arcade joystick / Raspberry Pi enclosure
- First version of a stereoscopic viewer which increases ocular distance
- Version 2 resides in the 3-D Fabrication room
- 1 more version till complete
- (long term) "dronify" a T-Rex 450 RC helicopter
Completed Efforts
- Taught Amateur Radio Technician License class with Pat Hykkonen (05/06/14)
- 14 new license holders after the exam!
- DMS Lemons Race (03/01/14)
- Heck of an adventure
- General Amateur Radio class (10/21/13)
- Sugru Instructible
- Cobbled together two computers for the 3D fabrication committee (05/12/13)
- Some bumps along the way, after initial setup
- Peabody is still running fine
- Sherman is not stable
Interests
- Oddball Video Games:
- Artemis
- Dwarf Fortress
- Motorcycles
- 1976 BMW R90S
- RC Helis
- While mutlirotors are neat (and safer), I keep gravitating towards collective pitch
- BBQ
- Amateur Radio
Favorite Quotes
- You are not really finished until you have finished for the third time
- Luck is the residue of design
- All ships rise with the tide
- I haven't lost my mind, its backed up on disk
