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.

  • FailBait@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    1 year ago

    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.eeOPM
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      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
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 year ago

        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
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • evidences@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • HewlettHackard@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    “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.