Hackaday Links: Valentine’s Day, 2013

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It's not too late to hack your own Valentine's day gifts. Here's four projects to get you headed in the right direction. Heart-shaped box [Ian] built what he calls the Valentine's gift bomb. It's a cigar box with this LED heart on the top. A servo motor latches the lid from the inside and won't open until the thing goes off on the big day. (sorry, no link to this one as he just sent us … [Read more...]

Tying the knot with MakerBot

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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 … [Read more...]