Electronic-Geek.com » Green http://electronic-geek.com Your Electronic Source Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:00:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 PCB / Component Rings http://electronic-geek.com/pcb-component-rings/ http://electronic-geek.com/pcb-component-rings/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:07:54 +0000 Sean Michael Ragan http://blog.makezine.com/?p=89861

Yuma Fujimaki is certainly not the first person to make jewelry from scrap electronics components, but IMHO she has done a better job of it than most. [via adafruit]

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Shown above is only the most recent work, using this technique, of Photobucket user ionustron, for whom it has been a lifelong hobby. Here’s another:

You can see the rest of his portfolio at his Photobucket account, and read the (surprisingly moving) memoir of his creations over at selectbutton. [via Boing Boing]

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