Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
With This Thing, I Thee…
Sometimes you need something special (
Figure 2-2
) for a special someone
and there isn't time to go shopping, buy something, or have something made
for you.
This happened to Thingiverse user Fynflood (see
http://www.maker
bot.com/blog/2009/10/06/makerbot-love/
). It was Friday and Fynflood
was leaving with his sweetheart to go to Iceland the next day and he had just
realized that Iceland would be the perfect time and place to propose. With
just hours to spare, he went to Hive 76, his local hackerspace, where they had
just set up a MakerBot. At Hive 76, Fynflood got some help to model a ring
and he made it. In Iceland, he gave her the box and she opened it up, saw the
ring and said “yes!”
And that's not all. There are more stories—from
http://www.makerbot.com/
Astera Schneeweisz was ready to propose to her sweetheart. Here's her
story:
I talked Marius into remotely making two rings for me just in time to
propose to Joernchen on July 15th. Well… he said
yes!
\o/
And he's
wearing the ring all day, though he actually never liked rings at all. ABS
is just awesome for engagement rings!
Robert Carlsen also made the leap:
Kara doesn't wear much jewelry and we don't support the diamond
trade. I still wanted to give her a personal, meaningful symbol of the
engagement.
I had heard of other folks making rings (even an engagement ring) on
Thingiverse - I'm not pretending to be incredibly original with this. How-
ever, I did design Kara's ring with CAD software (open source of course
- QCad / OpenSCAD) and replicated it on my MakerBot Cupcake
#2943. I wasn't sure of her ring size, so I made several sizes of the band
in black ABS plastic. The “stone” was made separately in orange ABS
and glued into the setting. I also made a threaded box available on Thin-
giverse and scaled to just fit the ring.
For the actual proposal, Kara had never seen the Pacific Ocean, but had
grown up spending summers in Ocean City, NJ. We've also spent a lot
of time at the shore together. After dating for a decade, standing ankle
deep in the ocean with Haystack Rock in the background, it felt right to
propose at that moment - she accepted and I presented her the box
with the ring - which she loves….and here we are
:-)
