That is too cool!
I have a batch of those endmills getting made right now. 1/8" to 0.5mm. How about that for breaking peoples brains. US to metric.
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Ryan, immortalized in a moment of calm at an energetic RMRRF. Pretty great.
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And, we are about to do it all over again!
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V1 has a premium spot.
But those slanted booths… Bah!
Not a good plan for those smaller exhibitors.
OK, @vicious1 - should we start coordinating who’s bringing what?
I’m still planning to bring a MPR&P.
I think Dave is bringing his rebuilt MPCNC and some goodies.
I believe you’re planning on bringing a printer and some kind of small LowRIder
I just proved you can build a LR4 in a day with some experienced help.
Any chance you want to show a full sheet LR4? I have suitable sawhorses and have complete confidence that we can have a machine to the show if that’s desired.
Questions:
@jeffeb3 - bringing your ZenXY?
@Jonathjon - (and Ryan). Any desire to show what a partial build kit looks like? Is there going to be another small LR4 sent to the show?
Any interest in bringing some “prop parts” (e.g. I’ve realized the LR4 core is the perfect thing to hand to someone when talking about the machine.)
What else is coming to the show (and who, exactly 
)
Is there any kind of floor plan layout for our booth (that we create, not the generic floor footprint)?
I’m planning to bring some more of my show stuff- multiple extension cord reels, power strips, chargers, some power tools, test equipment. Folks let me know what else makes sense to bring.
I have M5 Stack and CYD pendants. I meant to build a FluidTouch as well, but I’m saturated with other projects at the moment.
I have the Friday before the show off so can be available all day for setup and transport support.
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I still have the machine from last year but I got the feeling Ryan wanted to bring his own. I can put together a partial kit and send it for sure. That’s a LOT cheaper to send back and easy to sell afterwards.
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Yeah, and that reminds me we should make QR codes to put out with the stuff. We don’t sell anything at the show (as in retail sales), but QR codes (maybe just one that links to a V1 show page?) could help translate interest into action for builders that get the bug.
I think Ryan has QRs on the new stickers.
Oh, and I have one of Ryan’s table skirts and multiple stacks of the old style V1 stickers.
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3 tables wide ~18 foot, 2x10’ backdrops. We should have a little room to adjust front to back. The door side is probably going to have a table of some sort there, the one that is usually there for exhibitor check in and stuff.
Awesome! How wide is it?
Should include a fluid touch as well, That one is about half a table if it is the same size as last time.
LR for sure, printer is a maybe… I was going to bring the small bench top arcade but it is honestly pretty boring in terms of CNC project. Not sure how it would be to have an arcade line…still thinking about it.
That is a good idea. I can make that happen unless you have some already made.
I have a spare LR4 sitting here, I can ship it. If I am bringing props that is pretty much a partial build kit.
If we did that it would probably just be kept busy doing big moves all day to make it a little more exciting than just drawing in the corner. Maybe a giant mural on a melamime sheet with a dry erase? Let it run, erase and do it again? I am open to it, what about the rest of you?
At open sauce Bob, Jeffe and I ran Coasters. Those were easy, showed a few cool tricks, but would look out of place on a full sheeter.
yes please.
I have a pendant as well. should help out starting and stopping in the wifi saturation.
I did make a separate show page, but if we know what is coming I could make specific QR codes…but the special page is easier because we can link both the shop page and the docs page for each thing.
I am open to suggestions about all of this.
Most important is things made with a V1 machine. Those make it easy to talk about things.
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Do we have an AZA tablet or two? Does it need a stand?
I don’t mind sending a true partial built kit, unless that’s not something you want really shown at the show like that.
Continuing the discussion from Rocky Mountain RepRap Festival 2026 - RMRRF:
Oh, yes. I have both of @azab2c 's tablets that I took to SMRRF. I will be bringing them. They’re in cases, and are ideally sized for handing to someone. We did a bit of that on the 2nd day of SMRRF, with good effect.
I have a core that was the very first thing I printed when I pulled the Core One L out of the box.
I just upped the nozzle to .6 and have started doing some test prints. I have some notes about that, the Core One L SUCKS at doing ironing. I had a couple of spectacular failures of YZ plates from this. (It has filament jams in the nextruder!).
So, I could easily run more cores or more YZs.
Thinking about that started me considering a full sheet sized build.
If I’m printing parts I might as well print parts. I already have a spare LR4 hardware kit and since I built the beta LR4s serially I have several of those that are complete (Taken back down to subassemblies.) Those are calling to me wanting to get rebuilt into proper new LR4s, but for a show I’d do a new build.
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Yes. That is the plan. I should have time to make a new release for sandify and get the table warmer up in the next two weeks.
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That is a really weird header in my post. Is this a new thing that the forum is sticking in?
I didn’t type that line above at all.
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“Should include a fluid touch as well, That one is about half a table if it is the same size as last time.”
Yep. Slightly smaller Primo with Jackpot and FluidTouch. Working on several “products” as examples of what is possible with this platform. And maybe a couple of surprises.
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I think it does it when you reply to a closed topic, opening a new one with that title. Don’t get why it would do so in this topic though.
So we have 3 tables. Just getting a rough idea here.
1/2 MPCNC
1/2 zen
1/2 MPR&P
1/2 tablets, stickers, coins, made objects.
For table 3 I am really liking the idea of a big LR. If I bring some strut plates, and a pre-partial built LR, add in some LED’s… on that end I would need a sheet of melamine (or something a dry erase would work on that is stiff enough), Y rail and 2 x rails, and we can set it on the 3rd table or some saw horses. If we just use a full sheet instead of a full table to fit a full sheet and the extra wide rails you think that is good enough?
Shouldn’t take too long to assemble a beam and put the rest on?
Paper towels and some windex, dry erase, make some art and clean it up. Make a couple of quick giant v1 and RMRRF logos, and then maybe do something crazy that takes a while like that Marvel “mayan” calendar or something like that?
Think it will work, can you pick up the stuff on that end and I will reimburse you?
Any other ideas?
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So I do kinda need a head count for Friday tickets. Sat, Sun is free admission.
Me, Jim, Srcnet, Barry, Jeffe (fam coming Friday?), Jamie +2, Dave +1.
10 (or 12) for Friday, am I missing anyone?
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You may have it covered in your count, but my friend Rich Grimaud will be coming again to help with loading in, general set-up etc. If it’s not too much trouble it would be nice to get him credentialed as well, even though he’s not officially a “V1-er". (If there’s a cost, I’ll cover it. )
We can totally do this. I already have the sawhorses- they’re a pair of these:
We can use just a full sheet maybe of some OSB and then put that on the sawhorses with 2x4s on either side . From there make a top for it suitable for a full with beam.
No need to undersize it, we could format it for a full sheet, full range table. We can always us my trick of setting “Lift plates” on the full sheet, and then offsetting them outward by enough to host the full size beam. You then put your melamine or whatever in the center part.
I printed another core already (I have 2 black cores ready) that were going to be hand props.
I also printed a good YZ non-rail side.
I was about to start a YZ rail side.
If you’re bringing a kit then we can do like we did for SMRRF. We divide and conquer.
Each person we have takes one module- A core, one person on each YZ, someone put the table on the sawhorses, someone start assembling the beam, someone start laying a rail on the table. On Friday we could have it together in the morning.
In thinking about a full size LR, I had been kicking around in my head the idea of pre-assembling some parts like what’s in JJ’s partially assembled kit.
Maybe we even have a work day on a weekend a couple of weeks out for us locals and we do an initial build of those assemblies. I have more than enough parts to put a full machine together with what I already have on hand, though I’d need to finish printing some printed parts.
Then on Friday it’s just final assembly with the crew.
I was toying around with mostly black parts, but V1 Red for a set of Peter plates, the JP3 box, the front and back parts of the YZ plates, and all the belt holders and clips on the table. Maybe red mounts.
I have a Bauer trim router (Red and black) we could mount on the core even though we won’t run it. We’d just need to find a suitable mount with a pen holder.
I could host any pre-build activities at the makerspace in Boulder where I’m a member.
Me, AJ, and Chris built a lowrider in a short day at NottingHack. The full set of us can do no worse
Edit: To be clear: I’m happy to go shopping to get whatever we need locally.
No need to reimburse me. The reward for me is in seeing the community come together. You can’t fake the enthusiasm and comradery that comes with doing this as a team. It shines through at the event in spades.
Making an event out of it is seriously, seriously fun. This is also another dry run of the “could you host an event to have people come build thier own LRs?” crazy idea I keep chewing on.
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