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Thingitag Jr. by whosawhatsis

Please consider this a public service announcement on the issue of tags.  There are now more than 10,000 things shared on Thingiverse, which means it’s getting more difficult to find what you might be looking for among all the other things out there.  Fortunately, Thingiverse citizens have the ability, nay – duty!, to add tags to the things they see.

So, if you’re adding something to the universe of things, please be sure to add a few tags so that a week from now they’ll be easy to find even when your designs are no longer on the front page of the Newest Things.

And, if you’re cruising around Thingiverse and find something that would benefit from an additional tag or three, please help out everyone and add those tags!  One of the best parts about tagging someone else’s Thing is that when you do, Thingiverse instantly displays the number of things that share that tag, showing you all the other awesome related things you might otherwise miss out on!

Thingitag Jr. by whosawhatsis

I was showing off some of my designs at a recent Makerbot user group meeting, and I wished I had tags for them with QR codes and some other relevant data. This bookmarklet will generate such tags. This is a smaller version, with the QR code on one side and the human-readable information on the other. Note: I initially set the license to CC-BY for the example picture because the CC licenses look a little nicer on the tags, but I've changed the license to PD, so feel free to use it however you want. Update: Some errors were reported with the DOM walking, so I rewrote those portions to use Regex instead. This should improve compatibility.

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