I’m really getting excited for the upcoming visit.
I’m checking to see if I can get an early check in at an airport hotel when I arrive in Germany. That way I just move my bags to the room and then can be unencumbered by bags as I make my way around the area.
Hopefully I will be able to firm up all the details in the next day or so.
@ChrisB - and anyone else local- I think you said you already have a ticket. I can grab a few extra exhibitor tickets if any of our community would like to hang out for a bit at the table I have reserved. Folks please give me a shout here in the thread if interested, I’ll coordinate those details.
For each of you, or any other locals who lurk here- let me know if possible whether you might attend, and if so whether you would like to spend some time at our table.
I am seriously considering it once I saw it was to benefit neurodiverse young people in STEM. How come nobody mentioned that so far? I would guess most of us here are somewhere on the spectrum
Maybe we will try an adveturous ferry ride from Ireland…How is electric car charger availability in Great Britain?
Chargers are readily available at motorway service stations, but very few regular filling stations have them. Many supermarkets will have them - other than that I think you need an app to locate the nearest available one. Not used them personally - I still travel with a tank of highly flammable liquid.
I will certainly try to attend - I have a neurodivergent daughter who is interested in stem, but unfortunately her profile (situational mutism and pathological demand avoidance) and sensory needs mean that an event hall full of people is a very difficult environment for her.
Does anyone know if there will be quiet spaces etc. that she could retreat to if it all becomes too much?
RepRap festivals are pretty chaotic and extremely high stimulation.
For an event focusing on support for neurodivergent people you’d expect them to have a plan for accommodations like that.
If you’d like, I’ll DM you the email address of the SMRRF CEO and you can ask that very good question of her directly.
Make one run on a 5 AH dewalt 20v tool battery or an 18v Milwaukee to draw something or cut out vinyl stickers. That sounds like a great challenge. What logic is required for low battery shutdown?
I use car wrap cutoffs to make stickers sometimes… But you need a flattened surface for that.
Several decades ago a family member gave me a gift of Ryobi cordless tools. That was the gateway to a whole garage full of tools in their ecosystem. One good thing about these batteries is they include built in BMS, so the discharge protection is in the battery. Use those batteries and ignore the problem. That’s going to be my approach.
I’m studying Makita and adapters; I’ve got adapters that let me use the Ryobi batteries in Bauer tools and I think I can find one that lets me put a Makita battery (available in the UK) into my setup. If it has a BMS integrated in the Makita battery, that is.
I need to figure out where in the UK to buy a surface like the one Ryan brings to shows for drawing on. It’s on my to-do list.
I am in the other green ecosystem (hitachi / metabo hpt) at 18 or 36v depending on the tool and im unsure if the logic is in the battery or the tool now that you mention that being an option.
If drawing and you make and take the og pen holder you probably have less worry about exact table flatness, where a drag knife is likely much more particular.
I still have some of my OG Ryobi blue and yellow tools. I can put the lithium batteries in them and they go to work. I have so many Ryobi tools I would be embarrassed to tell the number. They have served me well. Sounds like this trip is going to be a blast.
At least in Manchester.
