Nice but what the hell is the message saying…

accelerate much? Cool idea but the sound quality can use a hand.

And if that’s his heartfelt I would prefer not hearing his usual :P.

What happens if you play the ring backwards?

Excuse my ignorance, but how “soft” is silver? He mentions in his blog that it took 100 lbf/in² of pressure to cut the silver, but my concern is that normal wear would make it useless in a short period of time.

Really cool idea, but for something like that I’m sure she’d like to keep the message around for a while.

That projector ring should come with a matching LED necklace for on-the-go projection

I would love to know how he measured the pressure to cut the silver.

@daley i think it depends on the pureness of the silver. Just like the carat of a gold ring tells you how soft the product is.

I have to admit that i’m also a bit afraid that the audio lines will wear down fast… but maybe this wont be a problem since she wont be playing it very often.

Then again if she bumps the ring or sits on it or a little layer of patina/dust is layered on it then it’s more or less useless afaik.

Still damn romantic.

maybe it would be better idea to carve the ring on the inside?
it would be harder to reproduce the sound that way, but at least it is a bit protected from the wear and tear?

I would make the ring out of wax, then record on the wax… plaster, then pour in the metal… but im not sure how much quality you can maintain tho

That is absolutely KILLER as an idea, but for it to really be a winner that audio quality has to improve.

And she gave him a ring that said “Wheres my diamond you cheap SOB!?”

I actualy just like knowing it says something. Didnt care too much for hearing it, ruined the mystery of it all. However, all in all, I give it two thumbs up

Maybe he wanted it to sound like something off the TV show Ghost Adventures. Those guys will take a sound of random static and say some ghost is saying something.

Why does he have the unit outside in the grass? Is it solar powered? Wouldn’t it be better to record indoors where there’s no wind?

Hirudinea lmao

cool, and i think the audio is decent for the recording method used, but why does the device keep playing audio after the needle is removed? watching the video, it seems more like the needle is just scraping on the ring, making a loud scraping noise, and the actual recording is coming from another source, since the scraping should be amplified making the audio output intolerable, and the recording keeps playing as if it were a record or tape playing at a decreasing speed, yet the needle is no longer touching the ring and it didn’t appear to slow down before the needle was removed.

A bit odd that the sound continues a good while after he removes the needle but when he puts it down you immediately hear that click, so there’s no buffering delay.

People ask so I’m taking my guess: Played backwards it says, “Half of all I own is yours.”

Definitely a cool idea. I love to find a way to improve either the sound or the lifetime of the sound.

I wonder if some metals other than gold that are more durable can be used in sputter coating objects intended for electron microscopy? Then again, would the heat needed in the process deform the grooves in metal ring? Just thinking alound…

…anybody know?

The people bitching about women preferring diamond rings have clearly never been married.

Diamonds belong in engagement rings; this is a wedding ring, hence simply a band of metal with no diamond.

It’s a lovely idea, but I feel a bit alienated by the title of this post. It’s predicated on the idea that you have absolutely no female readers, or at least that if you do have any, they’d all be lesbians.

That’s really not okay, unless your intent is to short term appeal to sexist male geeks to the exclusion of a growing group of female hackers. Even then, sexism really isn’t okay.

Try harder next time.