Machine QR cards
Printable safety cards and posters for each machine in a makerspace — A4 and A5 posters, A6 cards four to a sheet, or small Niimbot labels — with ISO 7010-style signs for PPE, hazards and rules, allowed and banned materials, key settings, who to ask, and a QR code that opens the machine's page and induction.
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- Label maker for Niimbot printers Images and retro graphicsprints the small per-machine labels this page sends it
- Machine inductions and sign-offs Makerspaceshares its space file, and each card QR code opens the machine there
How to use it
A card by each machine that says what to wear, what can go wrong, what never to put in it and who to ask — and a QR code that opens the machine’s page on a phone. The cards come from the same space file as the machine inductions tool, so edit the machines there.
How to use it
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The tool shows the space file this browser has — the sample space until you make your own in the induction tool — or paste the address of a published space file and press Load.
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Choose a Format:
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A4 poster and A5 poster — for the wall by the machine; materials in two columns.
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A6 card — for a stand or a lanyard; tick four to an A4 sheet to print on ordinary paper and cut.
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Niimbot label — a small label per machine (name, what to wear, what never goes in it, a QR code) sent to the label maker as rows, on its “Title, text & QR codes” template. Print it there over Bluetooth or USB.
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Tick the machines to print (all of them by default) and look through the preview with ‹ ›.
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Print. Use 100 % scale on the paper size shown; “Save as PDF” in the print dialog makes a PDF.
Each card fits its text to the size: the text shrinks to as little as about 60 %, and if it still doesn’t fit, it leaves off the notes, then the allowed materials, then the settings — never the signs or the banned materials. The preview says what it did.
The QR code
If the space file has a Published at address, the QR code opens
/tools/machine-induction/#space=<that address>&machine=<id>: the machine’s page, read fresh from
the published file, with Start induction on it. If it hasn’t, the QR code holds a short text
summary of the rules instead (what to wear, hazards, banned materials, who to ask), which any phone
camera shows.
The signs
The signs are drawn in the style of ISO 7010 — yellow triangles for hazards, blue discs for what to wear and do, red rings for what’s not allowed — simplified, and not the official artwork. Where there is a near ISO sign it is named in the editor. SVG signs downloads them all.
Works in any current browser. Printing to a Niimbot needs Chrome or Edge (see the label maker).
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