I was just wondering how many people would be interested in a meetup of 3D printer users? I’ve seen a few additive manufacturing functions in MN but they have all been held by businesses (resellers mostly).
I would like to propose a simple meet and great for people to eat, drink and talk 3D printing. No agenda or sales pitches. My vote would be to meet up at a local brewery like Summit but I’m open to whatever. Depending on the location I can inquire about setting up and running some machines while were there.
Let me know if you would be interested and what days/times/locations would work best for you.
I’d love to see it and get your feedback sometime. I’ve started designing my own delta so I would love to hear your thoughts, problems, solutions, ect.
There’s no set date at the moment so we can try to shoot for something after the 23rd. A Friday or Saturday evening would likely be easiest for most people.
Hey @Molly_2@3d4all @ - that’s a great idea. Drop me an email at nikki@3dhubs.com and I can create and event for you and help you get set up! Happy Friday!
I am designing one as well. A colleague and I are planning on building a large delta over the summer with two nozzles and a total height of 6ft. I like the delta machines because of their limitless speed.
Nice! That sounds like a fun project. Let me know if you need any help, I’m a CAD Designer (SolidWorks) at a machine shop in Lakeville. Learning from your build would help me with my own (much smaller, around 4’ high). I’m shooting for as smooth and accurate as possible. My Replicator has pretty bad ringing when you get up to speeds above 60mm/s (plus the hot end kinda sucks).
I saw there was a request to hold off until after the 23rd. I am out of town the 22nd-31st, but if you guys don’t want to put off scheduling it until June I totally understand.
Hopefully it’s a hit; I’d be interested in seeing something like this become a regular meet up. We had a web design meet up going on once a month up in Duluth, and that worked out great!
So what days, times and locations work best for everyone?
Friday evenings or Saturday/Sunday anytime works best for me. I am south of the metro but I can meet somewhere in the cities (south metro preferred).
My vote is for a brewery as a meeting place for two reasons.
1. Really good beer
2. Large open rooms with open seating (no need for reservations or splitting up between tables/booths).
Most breweries have food trucks outside (most of which have excellent food). My suggestions are:
Fulton Brewery is pretty centrally located and has a good size tap room.
Summit Brewing is a little further south but has a big tap room and picnic bench seating which makes it great for large groups.
Tin Whiskers Brewing seems like appropriate place to meet (owned by a bunch of electrical engineers) and has great beer (my personal favorite), plus Black Sheep coal fired pizza is next door. The only downside is the tap room is a little on the small side.
Would be interested in a semi local get together as well. I went to the Reprapfest in Indiana last month; and been interested in working up some local options as well.
Me too. I am a reseller but have also been trying to look up folks interested in doing this. I wouldn’t use it to pitch anyone, but would like to attend, so I’ll leave it to your discretion. I’m East of St. Cloud, too far to ask to meet in the North Metro. But you pick the place, I’ll be there (anytime over the weekend works for me - it’s 70 miles for me to get to Bloomington).
I’ve been fooled by pubs who say that they have a “quiet place to meet.” Let’s make sure we can talk, not shout.
You would be more than welcome to attend if you want to make the drive. For me I just want to see a casual get together for people to relax and talk shop.
Good point though, “Quiet” is a relative term :P.I will say most of the breweries I’ve been to have been quieter than bars or brew pubs. We could see if a local haskerspace (such as Twin Cities Maker) would be willing to let us use their space?
I live in Monticello and work in the South Metro, so I can make most any location. Would like to find a few people to setup a 3d print expo where we can get together show what we are working on and support those just getting into 3d printing. Weeknights are better in the summer as weekends end up being out of town for Basketball games or for Racing my car.
I’ve got the OK from Tin Wiskers to host the meeting and bring along a few printers! (Bots and Brews!)
If you are interested in attending and want to bring your printer (and print something!) please send me an email bruins.scott@gmail.com and let me know so we can have appropriate space set up. Space may be limited so printer space will be first come first serve.
Variety is always good. Shoot me an email at bruins.scott@gmail.com if you plan on bringing your machine, there is limited space and a few other things to go over.
We still have room for 1 more 3D printer if anyone is interested in bringing theirs. Shoot me an email at bruins.scott@gmail.com if you are interested.
I was talking to someone tonight that had built multiple printers similar to the prusa i3. I can’t remember what the type of printer was called. Any response would be appreciated.
