Ben "bushing" Byer, a pioneer of Wii homebrew development, died on 9th February, 2016, aged 35, due to natural causes.
He is survived by his wife and family.
https://hackmii.com/ben
Ben "Bushing" Byer - 1980-2016
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Re: Ben "Bushing" Byer - 1980-2016
RIP, he was a great guy. Helped me with the IDE-EXI PCB layout and personally delivered the Xilinx CPLD's to the fab on the way to some other business he had in China at the time.
Re: Ben "Bushing" Byer - 1980-2016
Wow. This caught me off guard. He was on hell of a talent. Rest in piece.
"The only thing more dangerous than a hardware guru with a code patch is a programmer with a soldering iron."
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Re: Ben "Bushing" Byer - 1980-2016
I've been informed he died due to a heart attack.
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Re: Ben "Bushing" Byer - 1980-2016
...so young too, how sad
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