 In exactly two months from today, I'll be at the Rocky Mountain RepRap Festival. If you don't know what that is, you should. My name's Jim and this is the Edge of Tech. That's right, in exactly two months from today on the weekend of April 20th and 21st, 2024, we will be in Loveland, Colorado at the Rocky Mountain RepRap Festival. What the heck is that? Well, that's a huge 3D printing convention. Don't let the name fool you. If you like 3D printing, if you want to meet some of the coolest people in the community out there, yourself included if you come, or some of the awesome vendors that supply us with 3D printers, filaments, slicers, anything you can think of, you got to come check this out. One of my favorite parts, one of the best parts of 3D printing is the community. And they're going to have a ton of tables reserved for people in the community to come, show their projects, and show off what they've been working on. That is my favorite thing to see at these conventions. It is so cool to see what everybody out there has been working hard on, whether it's code for your printer to do something cool, whether it's a brand new custom printer or prints or models, whatever it is, it is so much fun to see that in our community. That's why I really love these RepRap Festivals or 3D printing conventions, whatever you want to call them, because we all get to come together. And I love that. I love getting out there and meeting you guys and meeting all the people and the families that come. And most of all, just hanging out in a whole group of like-minded people for the weekend is absolutely my favorite thing. And on top of the people that are coming, like I mentioned a minute ago, there is a ton of vendors. Anything you probably could ask for is going to be there. Most of the big ones are going to be there. Everybody from Dan at Slice Engineering to the Cookie Cat crew to Printed Solid. I mean, everybody is going to be there. There's a ton of names. I'm not trying to leave anybody out. But it's just a lot of fun to meet the people behind the products we buy, too. So if you're looking for a specific vendor or group of people, jump on the website. I'll put the link in the description below. Tickets are free. Did I mention free if you're coming to just walk around? That's right. If you're in the area, free to get in. Otherwise, you obviously got to pay for your way to get there. Myself, I'm flying out from Wisconsin. You fly into Denver Airport. You drive up to Loveland. It's about a 45-minute drive. And then there's a ton of hotels and stuff right around the convention center, which is really cool. Again, it's all on their website. Link in the description below for that. They are also bringing back the death racers. That's right. Sam Prentis will be there. They're going to have death races at the event. This thing is a monster of a death racer. This thing is absolutely amazing. Built by my friends over at Offset Maker Lab. They killed it with this thing. They brought it to me at IRF last year, which is the East Coast RepRap Festival. That was in the beginning of October, right at the end of September, beginning of October. And this thing is amazing. And I love to see all the new designs. And there definitely will be battles. So come check them out because if you haven't seen these yet, basically it's like a tank. It drives around. You got to hit the other heads off with your weapon. There's spinning weapons now. There's weapons that go this way. And then the head is the on off switch, which is really cool. So if you get your head taken off, the car shuts down, you're done. It's a ton of fun. It's called death racers. Also, there's a ton of information on their website. Check it out because you still have time to make one. This is a very, very custom one. So yours probably won't look like this, but it might look like this. So this is a classic death racer and it's in a lot of pieces because I jumped it off of a robot 3D printer at the Midwest RepRap Festival last year and I've never fixed it. So come have some fun. Definitely a lot of destruction. You're going to love it. On top of that, the 3D printed top fuel dragsters will be back. I don't have one. I need to make one. I really need to build one. I'm going to do that for Murph probably, but top fuel 3D printed dragsters will be back. It is such a cool event. I'm talking dragsters going very fast, throwing themselves all over the place, sometimes into the crowd. So be careful, but it's a lot of fun to see these things race and I've had the privilege of racing a few of them and they are amazing. There's so much fun. So come check that out as well. So yeah, if you're into dragsters and 3D printing, 3D printed dragster and get your butt out there, I want to see you racing. So we were there last year and if you were there last year, you know that they gave me a microphone and they let me MC the event. I got to be the announcer, the MC, the host of the party and they must be crazy because they invited me back again to do it again and I accepted. So that's right. We're going to have a microphone. We're going to be talking, announcing, announcing all the things this year. I think they're giving me like an earpiece so they can tell me things I need to say instead of chase me down through the building. You never know what's going to happen. I think last year I saw Jill Telling and I announced over the speaker that we were going to see how many high fives we could give Jill Telling in the next one minute and I told everybody to just run towards him and give him high fives. Such a cool part of the event. It was a lot of fun because he didn't know it was coming. So a lot of high fives were given. Also Caleb will be there this year. He's going to be filming for the event and for me to make sure we get the stuff we need to cover which is awesome because Caleb is awesome and spoiler alert, hot makes may be coming back. So if you're looking forward to hot makes and you want to see that back, maybe two weeks from now. I'm just going to throw it out there. I don't know. I don't know. So stay tuned on that. But Caleb is a big part of the channel and he's a big part of hot makes and we're going to bring hot makes back. But yeah, Caleb will be there. A ton of fun. We're going to have fun with Caleb and speaking of him. He put together this promo for them this year. This was all shot last year. All the really cool stuff that you can see and you can do right now. Do you see what I mean? It looks like a ton of fun, right? If you can get there, I highly suggest you doing it. So much fun. All of the information in the description below. If you haven't heard of a rep rep festival or a 3D printing convention, this is your time. Let people know. Maybe you know people close to there. It's free to get in. So why not? It's a plane ticket. If you can afford it in a hotel stay. But I promise the weekend will be worth it. So much fun to spend a weekend with like minded people in the community and meet a lot of people that usually we only see in videos or over face or live streams, that kind of thing. So I can't wait to see you there. I hope you're there. If you know somebody in the area, tell them they got to get out there. If you can get out there yourselves, please do it. I can't wait to see you guys. I've said that like six times. I can't wait to see you guys tonight. If you want to see a little bit more about what it's about, I'm going to put last year's full video right here. And we'll see you in two months. Bye.