Game Controller Name Badges for Arcade Studio

Game controller name badges for Arcade Studio

Ten name badges shaped like a game controller for Arcade Studio, printed in silver grey with a magnet sealed inside each one.

Client

Arcade Studio

Service

Custom Signage

What they got

Ten controller-shaped name badges

What it is made of

Silver grey PLA+, with a magnet inside

How it is worn

Held on by its hidden magnet, no pin

What we brought

What we can do

Your shape, from one picture

We modelled the controller outline from the single reference image Arcade Studio sent us.

How we look after you

The magnet is printed inside

Each magnet went in partway through the print and was printed over, so it sits hidden inside.

What you get

Blank or named, one look

Blank badges and named ones share the same grey face and black edge.

The brief

Step 1 of 4 · 25/08/2021

Shape: A game controller, modelled from the client's reference image
Material: PLA+ in silver grey, with a black edge and lettering
Quantity: 10 badges, 7 blank and 3 with a name and title
Fixing: A magnet inside each badge

At Additive Inn, our 3D printing studio in Singapore, we made name badges for Arcade Studio. They needed team badges shaped like a game controller, from a controller image they sent, some blank and some named.

Production

Step 2 of 4 · 31/08/2021

We modelled the controller from their image and FDM printed the badges in silver grey PLA+. Partway up, the print paused and a magnet went into the round pocket in each badge, then the top was printed over it.

The first layers of the grey controller-shaped badges printing on a black print bed, a wavy pattern showing inside each outline — The badges' first layers printing.

A hand placing a round metal magnet into the pocket of a part-printed badge, other badges on the bed already holding theirs — A magnet going into each pocket.

A part-printed badge with its magnet sitting in the round pocket, before the top layers close over it — The magnet in place, before the top.

Build and assembly

Step 3 of 4

With the magnets sealed inside, each badge came off the bed finished. We lifted them off the print bed with a scraper and stacked them.

A scraper lifting a finished grey badge with a black button outline off the black print bed — Lifting a badge off the bed.

A hand holding a stack of finished badges edge-on, the grey and black layers of each one showing — The finished badges, stacked.

The final build

Step 4 of 4 · 31/08/2021

Ten controller-shaped badges, seven blank and three with a name and title, each held on clothing by its hidden magnet.

Game controller name badges for Arcade Studio