For the primary time since 2019, East Coast RepRap Competition (ERRF) was held in-person in Bel Air, Maryland. A complete of about 1600 attendees, together with over 60 company sponsors and virtually 50 exhibitors stuffed the APFCU Area at Harford Neighborhood Faculty. The occasion was a mixture of business-to-business dealmaking, hobbyist showcase, and a few wide-eyed children and their dad and mom.
Open-source tasks had been very a lot in view. There was notably good illustration from the Voron 3D printer design venture, with each printers and exemplars of its legendary design manuals on show. Past that, many Voron printers had been appearing as workhorses in different cubicles.
Filament corporations had been very a lot in proof with a tremendous array of wares and demonstration prints, like this dragon of multicolor ProtoPasta filament.
Chocolate printing from Cocoa Press is coming alongside, too. Quirky 3D printers, from “child belt” miniature belt printers to printers that redefine “wearable tech”, had been very a lot in proof, too.
E3D did a sneak-peek sale of their eagerly-awaited Revo ObXidian nozzle, which permits printing of abrasives due to its hardened metal orifice and diamond-like coating. It conducts warmth nicely since all however the hardened tip is product of copper. Prusa, too, had a show of its merchandise, together with the Prusa XL printer.
Most of all although, getting collectively in individual allowed outdated and new mates to match notes, or simply to see what the individual on the opposite finish of the Zoom name actually appears to be like like.
One unhappy observe was the absence of E3D co-founder and ERRF pillar Sanjay Mortimer, who handed away in 2021 at age 32. We The Builders did a memorial venture, organizing items created by volunteers which had been assembled on the occasion right into a bust of Sanjay. E3D is organizing a memorial basis; for extra data, contact [email protected].
Now we have now to get to work to make certain we are able to high our displays subsequent yr! Congrats to the organizers for an incredible restoration from these lengthy years of digital occasions.
