Alright CD, I want to see your favorite team pins and buttons.
Here are a few of the designs my team is working on for this season as well as last year’s multi-lingual safety buttons.
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ours are rectangles so that is special and cool…
that is what they have on them
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These were our 2018 ones. The only difference with our 2019 was that the border was defined by a rocket’s trail (either red or blue trail) instead of the grunge style border on those
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We got buttons. We also have button fans.
8020 is expensive stuff! But then again, so are buttons…
@Lil_Lavery, you got any of the really pimp buttons around, or do I need to see if Heidi’s site is still inline?
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if you look at our closet and our 2018 robot… FULL of 80/20 bars.
At 841’s volumes, we get pinback button sets at $0.10 (American Button Machine 2.25" round set of 500)
8020 is about $0.25/in in volume, so if 1665 can get at least 3 buttons per inch the cost math works (and I’d expect closer to 6-7 buttons per inch.)
The only real constraints become time on the horizontal bandsaw and deburring wheel 
Good creative use of old stock!
They are 1/8 in each 
We just set up a block of wood and clamp it down to the right length. That makes it so we can just measure once and cut to the end of the bar. The biggest problems we’ve ever run into are the students on duty don’t correctly cut (they just let the blade drop which gives a slanted cut), and the numbers (even i trip up on this procedure. It’s pretty hard).
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1325 had the best game themed team button I’ve ever seen in FRC last year. I wish I had a picture of it.
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I still have 43. I guess we could sell some as a fundraiser? PM me if you’re interested. We won’t rip you off.
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My favorites for non-themed buttons are just a nice simple logo on a solid color background. Normal buttons are pretty small, so once you start adding a bunch of shapes and text it becomes an unrecognizable blob. 1538 absolutely nails it in this department
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I don’t have any of the physical buttons, but both Heidi and Eric’s websites are still online (albeit they haven’t been updated since 2008 or before). Enjoy.
http://www.factorfantasy.com/thedavegallery/
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I may have to dig, then. I might have a couple. Somewhere…
For those not sure of what Sean and I were referencing… as I recall when the, er, victim won a WFFA at least one of these was shown on the big screen at the event.
