Bill Porter proposed to his girlfriend, Mara Tuchman, in a very unique way via a modified PCB design. This was carried out with the help of James “Laen” Neal from DorkpotPDX.
Mara had designed a PCB for a project and Bill had the brilliant idea to use it to propose.
This is her first time getting a circuit board professionally fabricated, so I helped her prepare the design to be sent off to Laen’s DorkbotPDX service. That’s when I had the eureka moment. I don’t know of anyone else who had proposed on a circuit board in the past! She would never see it coming. As soon as the email to Laen was sent with the design files I quickly sent him another email asking for a favor; could he add a message to the boards for me? He agreed.
You can see in the pictures following the circuit boards with the question in the silk screen. Laen also threw in a ‘gold PCB ring’ as well. I didn’t think Eagle had ring size conversions for drill holes!
This is a very clever way to propose and it is always nice to see makers help each other to make special things happen.
Via Twitter (@laen & @Bill_Porter)
The best and unique use of PCB in relationship.
What a great way to propose and celebrate the success of Mara having her first PCB fabricated. Although we’re sure the proposal is the more important part lol congratulations
Hey guys,
I entered my proposal into a contest to win a honeymoon. You can see our entry and vote at http://www.jic.org/index.php?page=contest#!/entry/255355
I would be awesome if you vote for us. You can vote once per day if you so choose. Thanks!
Just voted. Hope the Facebook app doesn’t spams my timeline.
Thanks Arup.
The most harm the app does is give you the option to post that you voted. I think you can remove it from your authorized apps after that if you are worried. Or you could leave it and vote every day. ;-)
It’s day one of voting it some entries already have 50 votes. So, we’re losing hope already. Looks like it’s going to be whoever has more Facebook friends…