They haven't said why. I'm very curious. I hope it's just a branding thing and not a sellout. I really like the community atmosphere and that is not a trade show.
East Coast Rep Rap Festival is renaming to 3d Printopia
https://twitter.com/EastRepRapFest/status/1708303491230282153
8 Comments
FailBait@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
Was just there yesterday… honestly. While there’s a lot of “RepRap” spirit, it was like 75% big company booths (PrintedSolid, Prusa, E3D, LDO, 3DGloop, Protopasta, Polymaker, Slice Engineering to name a few) this year. Which is cool, but it’s not the small little hacker space sort of vibe it started as.
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
Did you go upstairs or on the edges? I feel like the big guys in the center as you describe, but the edges and upstairs were the hacker space vibe.
FailBait@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
I did. It was a better setup than last year where the companies were smaller and they had the empty “artist/hobbyist” tables, but it was definitely more corporate this year as well.
hellweaver666@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 2y
Makes total sense to me. Only the oldest of 3d printing nerds are going to know what Rep rep is. 3dPrintopia does what it says on the tin.
roofuskit@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y
Most people getting into 3D printing today have no idea what Rep Rap is.
evidences@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
You're right, I bought my first printer at the beginning of last year I kind of know what reprap is but is be willing to bet my neighbor who bought his first a year plus before me probably has never heard the name.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 2y
Sad, it feels like it's selling out the open source spirit of reprap.
HewlettHackard@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
“ERRF” was terrible to say out loud, and as hell weaver said above, even many people interested in 3d printing won’t know what RepRap is.