A few weeks ago, my buddy fynflood hit me up on IRC (yeah, we’re oldschool) because he needed help with a project. It would appear our boy got some strange notion in his head that his old lady needed to be gettin’ wifed up here pretty soon, so instead of going the traditional route, he decided to design her a cool ring and print it out at Hive76 on our brand-spankin’-new MakerBot. That’s where yours truly comes in. See, our boy fynflood hasn’t earned his SketchUp merit badge yet, so he tossed me a png he designed in gimp, which I traced and scaled to a standard ring size. There were some issues with smoothing surfaces and not printing solid, but he worked them out and was able to present her with the ring on their trip to Iceland. She said yes. Score one for the nerdy dudes.

Successful marriage proposal via 3D-printed ring – Boing Boing.