De Beers would have you believe that only diamonds will do, but hackers are hardly ones to follow convention. How better to say “I love you” than with a MakerBot-extruded black ABS engagement ring ? [Adam Elkins] did just that, creating the design with a combination of GIMP , SketchUp and Blender , then producing the final output on a MakerBot at Philadelpha hacker space Hive . From the steampunk wedding at the 2008 Maker Faire , to the science-meets-romance web comic xkcd , hacker

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