Yesterday

[Platypus]

built circuitry myself, bought the box, cut a hole in it for the lcd which sits very flush to the box and used a wood drill for the button hole which also sits flush, so presentation wise it looks very good and not "knocked up in a shed in 5 mins"

You must be MUCH more geeky IRL than I ever imagined you to be !!!
- with all your festival going, I imagined you as a free spirit hippy type

But seriously, many many congrats!

<tune of "another one bites the dust" fades in>

[original PM]

played fella

better than me I proposed by text message

and she kept it in case I ever have ermm second thoughts!

[jmo21]

Glass half empty man eh?

well Ebenezer, It's not supposed to be Mastermind, the point is in the effort that's gone into it, the originality of the way it's asked, the fun of going away to a place I know she wants to show me and then ultimately the "non surprise", as you put it, of asking her to marry me.

The box is a Jewellery sized box, not ring sized and even if she does guess (which wouldn't take a genius to work out), surely that'll make it more exciting to get the box open?

I figure it's better than a few grunts while watching corrie along the lines of "so? shall we?"

Lol!!
I knew it was quite "scroogy" when I was typing the post!

good luck, it certainly is different!

[alreadypacked]

hi Chef,

good for you, it's nice to see something original in this world instead of simply off the shelf plastic solutions to everything

I am sure you know your customer and it will be a big success

well done

one thought is it worth to have two boxes, one with the ring and one with like a twix or something and if during the period between delivering the box and unlocking the box if there are any changes in relations you can switch the boxes and voila....

Milan.

Ever the optimist. Milan.

[milanbenes]

hi Chef,

good for you, it's nice to see something original in this world instead of simply off the shelf plastic solutions to everything

I am sure you know your customer and it will be a big success

well done

one thought is it worth to have two boxes, one with the ring and one with like a twix or something and if during the period between delivering the box and unlocking the box if there are any changes in relations you can switch the boxes and voila....

Milan.

[cailin maith]

Glass half empty man eh?

well Ebenezer, It's not supposed to be Mastermind, the point is in the effort that's gone into it, the originality of the way it's asked, the fun of going away to a place I know she wants to show me and then ultimately the "non surprise", as you put it, of asking her to marry me.

The box is a Jewellery sized box, not ring sized and even if she does guess (which wouldn't take a genius to work out), surely that'll make it more exciting to get the box open?

I figure it's better than a few grunts while watching corrie along the lines of "so? shall we?"

It's brilliant and you've put a lot of thought into it.

Don't mind them! She'll love it.

[chef]

WOW that really appeals to both my romantic side & my geeky side

Well done.

I hope you have, very many happy and healthy years together

cheers Pogle

[chef]

I don't want to rain on your parade etc

Seems to me it'll be pretty obvious to realise what is in the box, so not much of a surprise

Glass half empty man eh?

well Ebenezer, It's not supposed to be Mastermind, the point is in the effort that's gone into it, the originality of the way it's asked, the fun of going away to a place I know she wants to show me and then ultimately the "non surprise", as you put it, of asking her to marry me.

The box is a Jewellery sized box, not ring sized and even if she does guess (which wouldn't take a genius to work out), surely that'll make it more exciting to get the box open?

I figure it's better than a few grunts while watching corrie along the lines of "so? shall we?"

[Pogle]

WOW that really appeals to both my romantic side & my geeky side

Well done.

I hope you have, very many happy and healthy years together

[chef]

What happens when it gets to 50 failures?

I used to know a gal who would try just that to see if it worked.

I've added into the program at 25, 40, 45, 49 and 50 certain messages letting her know that she's used up half the chances, a few chances left, in 5 chances it will lock for 3 months, be very careful and finally at 50 it says "box locked. 3 months until next retry, powering down" and it switches off for 20 more button presses (not actually 3 months) and that's the reason I added the backdoor to gain access just incase she does not want to play along.