So I did not realize Mrrf was this weekend, but I just saw the closing statement on fb! Says there is a change for next year, something about makerhive is taking over the torch! Anyone know anything about that?
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I’ve not yet had a chance to attend MRRF, but I know several folks that have attended it as well as RMRRF.
I hear 2nd hand from them that the MRRF show was much more chaotic an experience for exhibitor and attendees alike.
Hopefully this will be a turning point that makes future shows significantly better.
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I attended MRRF loved it better than last year moved to a different building at fair grounds and was in air-conditioned building, last year it was 93deg and 80% humidity not very nice. Main vendors their Prusa, LDO motors for voron, Siraya Tech filaments, Alivepixel creates for Aliencell X1 laser, Jerard Design, Fusion filaments usa based manufacturing, West 3D, KB3D, and a least a dozen more.
here a couple of pic’s of some the big big prints people done.
How many LowRiders could you print with the filament used to create these LOL. Love the passion for creating something
We all go where we can MRRF was a 3hr drive for me would have loved to go to RMRRF but it a 18 hours away.
As a final thought we all do what we love in hobbies and spend time tying to do them like Family, CNC’s building a LowRider , 3d printing, RC airplanes and heli’s, laser engraving, trap shooting, motorcycles, hope you love the thing you do.
Ps just laser cut strut plates and getting ready to cut out torsion table by weekend hope
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But….. back to my observation, did they discuss the future???
They almost never do. Luckily it actually happened. Half the town was without power. Couple tornadoes hit a few days ago.
This is why I ask. Sorry I just got my glasses back, I was having a very hard time for a bit!!! I could not read the fb post very well, bahahaha
Your glasses beat me to it. Saw “MRRF” in the email digest yesterday but wasn’t free to respond then.
The fb post has the basics from the horse’s mouth.
My own personal impression from a conversation w/John, and not his words at all – so I’m just describing the impression one bystander walked away with and not at all anything any of the MRRF crew said, ok? – was that they started MRRF kind of accidentally during the RepRap era when just getting a 3d printer built up and working well enough to be useful was its own adventure for independently adventurous folk who could, and did, benefit from getting together to help each other bootstrap 3d printing. Now it’s an industry. How many owners of 3d printers have ever even seen the six letters “RepRap” apart from trying to remember what was the RR in MRRF? MRRF has momentum for someone to carry forward, just that “someone” will be someone else and it will be called something else.
All they had to say about the future was confidence in the MakerHive crew and that it was entirely in their hands now.
About the chaotic nature of MRRF: John, in conversation, commented to the effect that they’d worked hard to keep it so, against various forms of pressure to make it “better”. For whatever my vote is worth, I’ve been 100% on board for that over the past few years that I’ve attended because I wouldn’t have tried taking my stuff to anything less anti-organized.
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I don’t expect anyone to remember me as that guy who showed up for one reply to the MRRF 2023 topic. I let Ryan’s 2023 invitation to share updates about my small-scale CNC project slide by because I’m lame about comms :-/. But getting better at that is the metaproject. Lemme know if anyone wants to see more about another flavor of little DIY CNC machine here.
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Thank you for your reply!
I do remember the RepRap as to how you got a 3d printer. I almost did it. (I am old.) But I waited.
I have only been to one Mrrf, it was MAGNIFICENT, but not even close to what RepRap was in the beginning. People taking printers to the festival to make pieces the next person could have a printer!
What a magnificent thing!
Well here is hoping that the festival continues and is just at great. I would kinda (selfishly) like it to be in Elkhart, so it is closer to the highway, but hey, only being there once does not give me that right to even ask that!
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