Are you around Philly, Baltimore, or DC, and looking for something fun to do this weekend? Great news, because Saturday sees the start of the first inaugural East Coast RepRap Festival in Bel Air, Maryland. Eh, we’ll grab some Bohs and boil up some crabs. It’ll be a great time.
Regular readers of Hackaday should have heard of MRRF, the Midwest RepRap Festival, and the greatest 3D printer convention on the planet. There’s a reason it’s so good: it’s not a trade show. It’s simply everyone in the business and a ton of cool people heading out to the middle of Indiana one weekend per year and simply dorking out. All the heavy hitters were at MRRF last year, from [Prusa], to E3D, to [Brook] of Printrbot. The 3D Printing YouTubers made it out, and the entire event was simply a thousand or so people who were the best at what they do just hanging out.
Want evidence a highly unorganized conference of 3D printing enthusiasts can be great? Here’s a working MakerBot Cupcake. Here’s full-color printing with cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and white filament. How about an infinite build volume printer? There are roundtables, demos, and talks. This is the state of 3D printing, and it inexplicably happens in the middle of nowhere every year.
This weekend, the East Coast RepRap Festival is launching. This is not an event organized by SeeMeCNC, the hosts of the Midwest RepRap Festival. This is an independent event, and we have no idea how it’s going to turn out. That said, the schedule of events looks great with 3D printed pinewood (douglasfirfill?) derbies, and of course, the event space will be filled with strange and exotic homebuilt printers. The big names will be there, and it looks like this may be the beginning of something great.
Hackaday is going to have some boots on the ground this weekend, and we’re going to be showing off the greatest and the best from ERRF. Tickets are still available, and it looks like this is shaping up to be a great weekend.
First I’ll have to get into one little fight so my mother will move me nearer.
Huh, thats a good hour drive, i wish i had some more notice, might still make it
A Cupcake? If you really want to get into the history of DIY 3D printing, re-create the thing made of Meccano (or Erector Set) parts and a hot glue gun. Make those glue squares and cylinders again.
I’d go if Wicked Big Meet wasn’t the same weekend. Maybe next year!
So, I had to find out what Wicked Big Meet was about…
(A Subaru enthusiast meet in CT)
https://jalopnik.com/wicked-big-meet-is-a-safe-place-for-subie-enthusiasts-t-1782031617
For the record, we don’t say “Eh” and the crabs are steamed, not boiled. But ya got the Natty Boh, right… oh boy what a beer!
If you are a middle aged woman from Dundalk, you say “Hon”.
Three hours from D.C. in not-near-????????????????????????????????-interesting Bel Air. Pfft! Instead of charging ten bucks admission, they should pay us to go.
Fortunately, we have the internet to reduce any temptation from things like this.
An open message to the organizers: Next year, do it in Northern Virginia if you want serious attendance.
WHEN does the Festival begin? Everything I’ve heard says it starts on Friday, 6/22 at 10 am. EventBrite is selling tickets only for Saturday 6/23 and Sunday 6/24.