3D printed keychains offer a unique opportunity to carry a piece of your passions with you every day. With the versatility of 3D printing, you can create keychains that reflect your personal interests and style.
In this guide, I’ll share my favourite 3D printed keychain projects, like the music sharing Spotify keychain, hyper-personalised name keychains, and characters from movies, TV and video games.
Each project is complete with the STL files you need to print your own at home – so let’s find the one that’s right for you!
The Coolest 3D Printed Keychains
Name Keychains
- Download: Pinshape
- Designer: SETech
- Price: $1.30
The main benefit of 3D printed keychains is how easily they can be personalized, and not just to show your favorite passion. Some choose names or nicknames in any color for their keys to let everyone know whose they are.
These work well for your own keys, or as a gift.
The Spotify Keychain
- Download: Cults3D
- Designer: ALDAIRPADILLAG
- Price: Free
Anyone can make and print a model keyring, but there’s something special about keychains that double as something else.
Spotify codes work like QR codes, and can be scanned to automatically play any song on Spotify. This creative keychain includes such a code that can be made for any song from any collection you like.
Designed as an ideal gift, it makes for a great 3D printed keychain so anyone can carry around a shortcut to their favorite songs.
The files include a few song examples, but they also include instructions on how to find and create your own.
Light Up Motorcycle
- Download: Pinshape
- Designer: Lochemage
- Price: Free
Finding things in the dark or under your car seats can be a pain. Loose batteries and small items always seem to find their way rolling around your car no matter how careful you are.
This 3D printed keychain is designed to fit an LED and a battery to double as a mini flashlight, making it the most practical keychain on this list.
While it takes some careful engineering, the instructions included with the files are fairly straightforward and simple enough for anyone to make.
Cartoon Character Keychains
Cartoons are a huge part of our culture, delighting and entertaining children and adults alike, and 3D printed keychains let you carry characters of many animated shows and movies in your pocket.
The endlessly quotable and fun invertebrate Patrick Star is available as a keychain design, as is Baymax, the huggable medical companion from Big Hero 6.
The cowabunga kid Bart Simpson is a classic addition, and is available in a variety of designs along with the rest of the family, our favorite of which is this 3D printed Lisa Simpson keychain that can be customized with an image of your choice.
Other classics include Hello Kitty, South Park’s Kenny, and, for more of a ‘kaboom’, Marvin the Martian makes for a nice throwback as a 3D printed keychain.
Speaking of aliens, you can also 3D print the adorable and destructive Stitch for your collection.
Dragon Ball Keychains
- Download: Cults3D
- Designer: 3DOKINFO
- Price: $2.00
It shouldn’t be surprising that the many symbols from the gargantuan franchise Dragon Ball are available as 3D printed keychains that have been faithfully recreated from the source material.
From the symbol of the dastardly and vengeful Red Ribbon Army that hounded Goku for decades, to the Capsule Corp logo of the company that made this fantasy series a lot more sci-fi.
For fans of the later series, there’s also the Majin M, a symbol of evil intent in many designs. The recognizable Z that started the Saiyan Saga, is also a great choice as a 3D printed keychain for any fan.
Or you can show your true knowledge by making one of these 3D printed keychains from different schools of martial arts, and even the Turtle Hermit Master Roshi himself!
Star Wars Keychains
Most Star Wars fans tend to have some sort of memorabilia of the ever-popular franchise in their homes or pockets. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t some clever 3D printed keychains out there that mark some of the more obscure or rare symbols of the cinematic giant.
While keychains of the famous logo or the many well-known characters are easy to find, our favorites are these 3D printed keychains that include the symbols of the Jedi, the Empire, the Rebels, and the logo of the newer iteration’s First Order.
For a more classic look, here you can combine your keychains to include Darth characters and Stormtroopers as keychains too.
Fans of The Mandalorian aren’t to be left out, though, as a 3D printed keychain in the shape of of the famous bounty hunter’s helmet is included in these files.
Customizable Pet Keychains
- Download: Cults3D
- Designer: 3DOKINFO
- Price: $18.32
These files for customizable pet tags were designed to double as both keychains and collar additions. Anyone who takes comfort in their furry companion will be happy to know that they can carry their pet’s likeness and name around with them.
These tags are very cute and nicely designed images that come with blank tags for your pet’s name. They’re ideal as keychains, tags, or to mark a food bowl or leash depending on the size.
Video Game Keychains
As with any pastime, video games can take up a lot of our free time. They’re a great passion for many, and so you can create 3D printed keychains of characters and symbols are available from any franchise.
Classic Zelda images from the games can be made into keychains with 3D printing, including the darkness drenched Majora’s Mask
Mario mushrooms, Final Fantasy logos, and hundreds of beloved icons from games are easy to find and print as keychains to your passions for these virtual worlds. Even the logo from Blizzard’s runaway hit Overwatch can be found as a 3D printed keychain project.
Not to mention the hundreds of Pokémon keychains. From your favorite pocket monster to Pokémon Go team of choice, there are plenty of design options for trainers to share their love!
If you’re an all-round gamer, you can also find these Playstation and Xbox controllers as 3D printed keychain files.
Car Key Keychains
Many of us take pride in our roadsters for one reason or another, and there’s no better way to express that pride than by carrying our cars’ logo design with their respective keys.
While most car key fobs already display its make, there’s never any harm in adding a little more flair to our keys to show off the motors we use every day.
Many designers share in this pride, so custom 3D printed keychains are available for download online for all your keys, regardless of make or model. So you can take your pick between designW, Porsche, Hyundai, or other design.
Or, if you’re the kind of person with a collection of too many keys to count, you can make a 3D printed keychain in the shape of a car or van so you can find the exact key you need with ease.
