Customizable Popsticks

This customizable OpenSCAD model generates printable popsticks with your own text. Originally designed for classroom use, it's also perfect for home, events, and games!

✨ Features:

• Add student names or sight words for classroom activities
• Use for reading games like BANG! or random name selection
• Create chore sticks for kids or family task rotation
• Generate icebreaker prompts, affirmations, or game ideas
• Supports flush or raised text
• Automatically arranges sticks in a centered grid
• Generates 3mf files for easy colouring in slicer.

🛠 Customizer Options:

• Enter a comma-separated list of words or phrases - will generate new popstic for each word/phrase
• Choose your font from MakerWorld’s library
• Adjust text height, font size, and layout spacing
• Adjust popstick width, length, thickness and rounding
• Toggle between raised or flush text. No AMS - no worries, print raised text and change colour at the layer height the text begins. 

🎯 Use Cases:

• Teachers: student names, sight words, classroom games
• Families: chore sticks, screen time tokens, meal ideas
• Event hosts: party games, icebreakers, trivia prompts
• Makers: tool labels, garden markers, workshop prompts

How to use the customiser: 

Check out a quick screen recording I made showing how to use the customiser: 

Print settings: 

If you are doing embedded text, these are tips that I have found to work best for me: 

Start with a very clean plate. Use supertack plate for best results. 

Print text colour first (do do this, go into plate settings, filament sequence settings, custom order). This will keep the text very crisp. 

Use a prime tower. 

Use arachne wall generator to allow smaller details to print. 

Design by (un)productive printer on MakerWorld (license: BY-SA).