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I'm a member of the local makerspace, and to gain access to the building everyone has their own RFID key tag thing. Black plastic, kind of a tapered oval shape, and, well, they look... boring.

Like, really boring.

I fancied mine up a little bit via use of one of the 3D printers (Team Valour REPRESENT).

Originally my plan was to make a solid one-piece cover with an opening at the larger end that the tag would slide into and then click-lock into place. That idea ended up scrapped because I'm not sure the Form1 resin printer is currently in service (plus I haven't yet been taught how to use that one), and our Ultimaker is still out for repairs, and it's the only one that can print with two filaments at once (in this case would have been one regular PLA for the tag cover, and one water-soluble for the inner supports keeping the top layer from collapsing into the rest of it during printing).

Our five (properly functioning, yeah!) Wanhao printers can only do one filament at a time, so I sliced the model in half and added pegs and holes so the two halves could be stuck together around the key tag.

The first prototype didn't work out that well. I'd gotten the measurements very slightly off, so the tag didn't fit all the way into the covers, and turns out the print resolution of the filament didn't allow for the pegs/holes to be of the size I'd drawn. Edited the model and did a second print. Still had to drill out the holes a touch with a drill bit to clean them up enough that the pegs would go all the way in, but the tag itself fit perfectly. Yay.

How it will hold up to the day-to-day abuse of mingling with my keys remains to be seen.

Description
I'm a member of the local makerspace, and to gain access to the building everyone has their own RFID key tag thing. Black plastic, kind of a tapered oval shape, and, well, they look... boring.

Like, really boring.

I fancied mine up a little bit via use of one of the 3D printers (Team Valour REPRESENT).

Originally my plan was to make a solid one-piece cover with an opening at the larger end that the tag would slide into and then click-lock into place. That idea ended up scrapped because I'm not sure the Form1 resin printer is currently in service (plus I haven't yet been taught how to use that one), and our Ultimaker is still out for repairs, and it's the only one that can print with two filaments at once (in this case would have been one regular PLA for the tag cover, and one water-soluble for the inner supports keeping the top layer from collapsing into the rest of it during printing).

Our five (properly functioning, yeah!) Wanhao printers can only do one filament at a time, so I sliced the model in half and added pegs and holes so the two halves could be stuck together around the key tag.

The first prototype didn't work out that well. I'd gotten the measurements very slightly off, so the tag didn't fit all the way into the covers, and turns out the print resolution of the filament didn't allow for the pegs/holes to be of the size I'd drawn. Edited the model and did a second print. Still had to drill out the holes a touch with a drill bit to clean them up enough that the pegs would go all the way in, but the tag itself fit perfectly. Yay.

How it will hold up to the day-to-day abuse of mingling with my keys remains to be seen.