Where did you purchase LED badges? Did they come with blank acrylic?
I really liked the design bwente shared and plan to give it a go so that I can make the whole LED badge myself. But I had already ordered these LED supplies so used them. I purchased them from here:
https://www.xstron.com/rgb-led-glow-badge-card-blank-acrylic-plate
They came with a blank acrylic (just remember to remove the plastic covering 
. They also came in a nice little white box and have a nice black cord to use when wearing them. They have four little screws so you can remove the LED part so you can just place the acrylic blank in the Glowforge. They come with batteries installed but they can be replaced and I ordered the type needed from Amazon. The acrylic blanks are a nice size I thought. The LED has a on/off switch on the side and has multiple modes - flashing and 7 single colors - easily changed by a small button on the front. The company also has several other LED products that I liked - one was a small key chain that is just like the badge but the acrylic black is smaller and it comes with a clip clasp but you could use the badge black cord on it to make a smaller necklace. Their LED items were reasonably priced I thought but their shipping was VERY expensive. However they arrived very quickly and everything was in good shape and worked. I ordered a number of items which made the shipping a bit more reasonable per item. I hope I can figure out how to cut additional acrylic blanks for them myself but the fit of the blank into the LED part is pretty tight so the shape would have to be pretty exact. I would post a pic of my Christmas LED badges with this post but I haven’t figured out how to do that yet. Lots to learn! Thanks again for your help!
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The original design of the holder is nice, and personalizable on the GF, but you have to source all the other components.
The xstron badges look interesting as they include a switch, led, battery, and lanyard. Doing it all yourself will probably end up being cheaper, but only if you go through the full bag of leds or chains.
OMG I Love this… Are the electrical parts easy to find?
It is a variation of a LED throwie. I had LEDs and batteries at home. But if you want to get started you can get LEDs from Amazon.
Batteries too. You should be able to find a better deal than the first on I searched for.
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Goodly design. After a few tweaks, I made a few of these for my buddy’s gallery show opening this weekend (with social distancing guidelines in place). I made a a few bits on the forge for him and built some electronics to help him achieve his vision. As he worked on the concept, it kept getting bigger in scope. WIth covid keeping us at a distance, I have only seen bits and pieces as I delivered parts (and there are a lot of them). I am looking forward to seeing the entire thing assembled. The coin icon on the badge evolved from an early piece (nerdy gurdy) and is now a thread that weaves through the ensemble. Photos later.
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The screws definitely make it easier to replace the battery. Nice job.
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very nice! Can’t wait to see the finished product!
nice job !!
Nicely done! I’m VERY new to this type of creating but so far, it has really gotten me excited. I REALLY appreciate the open sharing of designs and SVG files in this community. Think I found a new home.
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Frigin AWESOME!!!
files that I used…
I cut the part on the left from clear acrylic, feel free to swap out the artwork for whatever floats your dingy.
the parts on the right from 1/8th plywood. I used metric bolts M4 with no nuts, they seemed to stay together well enough with the given interference. The extra smaller battery cutout is a mistake but it causes no harm other than extra cut time by a few seconds.
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Your edge lit badge is so neat! 
Thank you so much for sharing! 
Does this have a base by chance? Thinking about incorporating this into some tabletop decorations for my nephew’s graduation. Does anyone know if there is a way to create a QR code so the kids can take pictures with their phones and have them all load to a central location they all can access?
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QR codes can be shortcuts to web sites. So you could send them to a site to upload the photos, or a social media account and “tag” them #Grad2021
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I think the kids would love that! 
Thank you!!!
That looks great! Thank you for sharing the file. If I ever do a show…
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Do you have the file so that we could make our own? I am having trouble with making the file for the acrylic?
Welcome to the forum.
The file is in the original post. Click the line drawings (which is the file) and save as svg to your computer.
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