Reimagined Student Name Tag

Challenge: Produce something unique to label items.

Background: The use of the 3D Printer to produce unique items that are student driven or student designed is and has always been one of the key strengths of the technology.   Nearly every student that has completed a 3D Printed design has started with the variation of a name tag/label as these designs typically are highly useable and functional.

Typically the students are able to design these within a few short minutes of using Tinkercad for the first time.  Since we started this blog (in 2015 no less) we have occasionally used other apps for design, however for educational and schooling purposes we have used Tinkercad almost exclusively for its versatility and dependability.  Its educational/classroom set up for the students has been extremely well developed.   In contrast we have changed 3D Printers machines once significantly since the start of this blog due to better machines clearly being available and we have not looked back.

Level of Difficulty: Medium/Low - students should be able to produce something like this independently using Tinkercad in a relative short space of time, there are a few elements with the design that make it a little bit more noticeable - the key feature would be the name being sunk into the design instead of  sticking out above the print - this means that the lettering would not fall off as experienced is the lettering had been inversed.

Size: 70mm long, 50mm across and 10mm thick.    This produced a versatile print that was robust and strong enough that there would be no concerns with its durability.

Timeframe: Ninety minutes.  Given that the dimensions listed above were what was required there would be no change to the printing time as no adjustment would be made to the print.

What we would do differently/Next Steps for the students: Nil/None.   This print has designed and executed perfectly from the point of view of the student (who is a Y7 students, twelve years old) and the point of view of the classroom teacher (who is not myself, the student brought me the finish print and asked that this be printed as it was).