Rocky Mountain RepRap Festival 2023

If you do, I’ll second that!

We are seriously planning a week or three on the west coast of the US next year, does anyone have a suggestion about what time we should come? Thinking some time around late April! :rofl: :thinking:

Given the success of this event - will accomodation become problematic?

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In a word: No. This might have been big for the 3D Printing community. But it is small for Denver, or even for Loveland. Worst case, you might have a slightly longer drive to come from across Loveland, Longmont, or Ft. Collins.

I’m not sure which arena the next one will be at. The organizer mentioned a larger building next year. He also mentioned the weekend of April 20th. But I have no idea how firm any of those plans are.

I would be very confident to wait, and get things hammered down before booking anything. In case it moves to a different part of Denver.

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These elk behind my house just missed you.

(and yeah, it is snowing again)

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Did I hear anyone complaining about snow?! I’m here to contest!!

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We’re getting liquid snow here.

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I showed up there in a t-shirt and shorts. :rofl: Changed to pants for the rest of the weekend. Wore my “heavy” shirt, which was just a flannel shirt. Worse case, the E3d guys across the aisle had hoodies for sale.

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Was great to meet and hang out with V1E old timers. Loved having the opportunity to chat with existing, and future V1E tribe members. Hope the new people we met felt inspired and encouraged to pursue V1E/other projects that maximize their joy.

Was great to hang out, and chat with other tribes, like the Voron folks. Fortunately, we can identify as members/friends of multiple tribes, and ultimately, we’re all part of the Maker tribe.

Grateful I had the opportunity/time to drive to the event, look forward to visiting again. Recommend flying, and/or allowing more travel time. Left Seattle Fri ~5am, arrived Denver Sat ~10:00am. Drive was a mostly pleasant mix of sun, rain, snow, except for having to skate on ~50 miles of black ice in WY…

One unexpected personal highlight was being able to lure some V1E legends here, and some popular 3D printing YouTuber folks over to tag my half ar$ed MP3DP. Used the opportunity to pitch and increase V1E awareness among the YouTubers :slight_smile:

Sharing quick event tour to give a sense of the setup. Apologies for the shaky footage (was caffeinated and sleep deprived). Will use a gimbal next time.

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I love it. All calm and BOOM you open the door and madness! That is what if felt like.

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Cheers for sharing the group pic at RMRRF @vicious1

Was great chatting with you @MakerJim

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Whoops wrong RRF!

Sorry it took so long.


The dream team! I am on my tippy toes, everyone is taller than me. We should have scooted all the machines into the picture as well, super cool to see the entire lineup there.


Everyone chatting and answering questions.

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where did that core end up that you printed at the show?

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Sunday evening I gave all the prints away or stuffed them in Aza’s printer :joy:

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Cheers, they’re really nice prints, great benchmarks for me to aspire to. Will use the Z stops if I end up building another MP3DP v4, already decided the build’s theme, a budget build called “MacGyver”.

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macgyver sounds better than frankenprint…

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This was a packed event!!!
My wife and kid didn’t like the crowded room otherwise I would have stayed to meet you all.
Jeffeb3 the Table looked sweet in real life! Good job on it!

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Ok so just found this. I need to look into the chameleon!!

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Hey everyone, this is Justin, one of the co-organizers of the Rocky Mountain RepRap Festival.

On behalf of my co-organizers, we truly want to thank everyone who was involved or even interested in this event for our inaugural year. In total we had 3500 people over two days. 2150 on saturday and an additional 1000 people on sunday, plus 350 people in the sponsors/makers/staff group. It was beyond anything we could have imagined when we started this in September and next year is gonna be at the same venue, with the full intention to use both 18,000 square foot halls.

Please feel free to comment, give constructive criticism, and suggestions for next year. There are so many little things we can improve on to make next years event even better.

Thank you to Ryan (vicious1) for being a platinum sponsor, and it was great to meet Jeffeb3 and whoever else came (sorry too many people to remember).

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Thank you for a stress-free show. It was fantastic. I know of things I will be changing, but I really can’t think of anything to change on your end, so whatever you have planned I am sure will be great. If I could only attend one show a year it will be RMRRF for sure, trying to squeeze in at least a one more though.

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I wish I had some good feedback for you. I had so much fun and it was really great meeting you. It was very nice to meet so many enthusiastic people and talk in depth about things I am so passionate about.

It is nice to see you in the forums. Don’t be a stranger.

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So much was discussed. Pasted some of my notes below, a subset of the overall content am currently most interested in.

  • 06:00 Jason from LDO. Interesting “Positron” open source 3D printer, super compact, upside down, 90 degree hotend, currently synchronous mesh belt but switching to conventional belts.
  • 32:50 Shane from Prusa3D.
  • 58:20 Vishal SliceWorx, have bunch of products including filaments that very closely match Makita, Dewalt, Milwaukee and Ryobi. Useful if you want to pimp out storage/accessories for your favorite tools toys.
    • Disclosure: Vishal and I chatted for a bit, he kindly gave me a free not Dewalt “Vault Yellow” spool to try out.
  • 1:03:50 Tim from Voron, history and various showcase models, including Yuge, trident (darkrock185), double panel high temp ( PanDOOMra by Doug ), Tim’s flip lid, TridEX = Trident + Dual extruder,
  • 1:16:30 Steven from 3DQue, 3D printer/farm automation, via ML/AI. Dynamic setting tuning during job to maximize successful yield (e.g. temp and flow tweaks during the print based on camera observations).
  • 1:24:15 Apex from Fabreeko Snake Oil, open source projects
    • Neat panel clips/mounts, am probably stealing those for my MP3DP v4
    • CAD/Docs/Firmware and more for SnakeOil-XY 3D printer.
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