Lets discuss making some ribbon akin to the military service ribbons, but not the same size
I like this material as an example
burlap ribbon
Were thinking of cheaper options besides this:
Adafruit skill badges
Badges?
@uglyknees has already started creating these.
I see a theme here…
I did start some but I talked to Doug and David last night about it and they seem to have some great ideas for them so I asked them to take the idea and run with it! As I’m busy with all sorts of crazy.
I love the idea of the badges that they are made @Nick is that price close to cost or far away?
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Custom Embroidered badges are expensive in low quantity. I bet Adafruit buys those badges in high quantities to get the price that low. Also, you need to embroider on patch blanks or purchase the machine that cuts and stitches the edge of the patch as that isn’t done on the embroidery machine normally. I have one method to do one off patches, but it is kind of labor intensive and would be more expensive than the adafruit badges.
the idea is to do something more generic that would bring the cost and labor way down.
to model after the military ribbons but make it a different size so that noone could misconstrue.
there are ribbon builder board web apps for the military that help someone set up their ribbons,
and we could do something similar. We have “knots” in the Boy Scouts of America that are
worn on our uniform that have specific meanings. David had the idea of incorporating the
host committee color (ala the color stripe on the wall) as an outside stripe or border on the
ribbons. Then we could also have small pins for “Repeat” achievements to be worn directly
on the ribbon field. Again BSA has something similar called a proud parent pin that lets them
where small pins of their son’s rank on it as he develops in the program. Apologies for the
poor formatting, just had a quick second at a cell site to reply.
Here’s the basic concept that I put forward:
The basic ribbon color would have border with various colors on an edge that indicated the “committee” or “area” the ribbon applied to generally, e.g. Gray- Metal Work, Brown - Wood Working, etc.
The medallion at the end could be whatever the committee awarding it wants it to be. Wood working could make there’s cut out of wood on the laser (easily massed produced), Electronics could be an electrical part or whatever. Forging could be 3D printed or laser cut Hammer & Tongs, Welding a Flame, RC cars Steering Wheel or Tire. If RC has an official race Checkered Flag with a 1, 2 or 3 on it to show place.
The basic concept is shave a very minimal standard as to colors for Committees awarding, a min-max size 1"~ 1.5", whatever. The ribbon itself doesn’t even have cloth like material, could be whatever the committee chooses.
Brainstorming by my lonesome, I thought a DMS general ribbon for instructors would be Gold ribbon (gold being Excellent of course), no edging color since it is in service to the community, 3D print some medallions with say an oil lamp with a flame (pretty much universal symbol for knowledge/learning). They would be in say 4 colors: White 1-9 classes taught, Bronze 10-24, Silver 25-49, Gold 50+.
Committees can make them up as they but the basic edging color would indicate where it came from.
Once a concept is agreed on, then I and others can work out how it might be actually accomplished and submitted for approval to the DMS Overlords or whoever does such approving.
Open to ideas. I threw out some ideas to Uglyknees, Dougemes tossed out a few ideas and she said “Great! Run with it! It now belongs to you guys”
Maybe ya’ll don’t even want this idea … but I pretty sure Creative Arts will have some - we even talked about ones for failed projects, I’m thinking broken light bulb or dunce hat!
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