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Rings made from circuit boards

Cory Doctorow at 4:33 am Tue, Mar 15, 2011

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Jeweller Yuma Fujimaki has many beautiful pieces for sale, but I'm especially taken by these rings made from circuit boards and RAM sticks that have been cut, polished and reformed into jewellery.

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  • johnhoeffleur

    Those look like ICs to me. :)

  • PaulR

    I sure hope that’s not regular electronic solder on there…

  • Anonymous

    Unless you took it all apart, cleaned, and then re-soldered with silver solder the jewelry would probably have lead in it.

    A nice piece though. Gilbert, I am imagining it with silver for all of the circuitry, malachite for the board (perhaps rounded on the inside for comfort, then with simulated PCB circuits on the inside of the ring , and some sort of screen printed grayish-black stone for the chip.

  • dculberson

    I don’t know if this stuff is lead free, but an awful lot of modern electronics have lead free solder.

  • InsertFingerHere

    Terminator bling.

  • emmdeeaych

    Giggitty Giggitty Giggitty

  • dculberson

    PCB contamination!

    [that's ... printed circuit board.]

  • AirPillo

    Looks like they pick ones without stabby bits where the leads stick through. That would worry me more than a bit of lead. Getting stabbed by those is ten times more annoying than a papercut.

  • Lobster

    That looks… kind of uncomfortable.

  • Manooshi

    That looks pretty rad. Reminds me of the electronics soldering class I had at Machine Project.

  • Gilbert Wham

    Not Sure If Want. Maybe with a cylindrical insert for round fingers? Be ok for robots. A chip set on a silver ring like a stone might be good though.

  • Anonymous

    Mmmmmm. Lead poisoning.

  • sockdoll

    I studied art, design, and jewelry making in college – and ended up in electronics, and eventually computers, for the paycheck and benefits, etc. I used to make rings from color-coded wire when I was a kid, and have seen jewelry made of electronic components before, and actually liked one or two of the pieces, but it never would have occurred to me to make a ring like the one pictured, and now that I’ve seen it, I still wouldn’t.

  • Mark Crummett

    I’d be cool if it actually did something. Flash drive, maybe?