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The UK's Leading RepRap Festival Recap
Sat 7th & Sun 8th Dec 2024
We are over the moon to once again bring you SMRRF. In our second year, we made this 3D Printing Festival bigger, better and more inclusive. This year, the event was hosted in the modern, accessible Manchester Metropolitan University Business School in partnership with Manchester Met's PrintCity.
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Last year saw over 1000 attendees, 40 exhibitors and raised ~£50k to support neurodiverse engineers. This year we invited guests to celebrate the innovative and community-driven spirit of the 3D printing world and have the chance to see the latest releases from the industry's biggest names, meet highly sought after Content Creators or just grab a display booth and come and show off your prints.
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If you can't join us in person don't worry! You can catch all of the talks using the below links over the weekend!
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Saturday Live Stream Link
Sunday Live Stream Link
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Grant (3D Musketeers) is also back with a new fundraising challenge that's guaranteed to be messy, and hilarious - Pie Face! Read more about live stream times and donations here.
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We can't wait to see you there,
Team SMRRF x​​
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What went on at SMRRF 24
​Along with all the top brand names and Content Creators of the 3D Printing Industry, SMRRF 2024 was packed with even more.
Take a look at some of the activities that went on...
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Droid Builders STEM Workshops
For Star Wars fan 8 years or older loved this hands-on workshop! Groups joined us for LED badge making, Sabacc (Han Solo and Landorissian's game), astromech and programming, press badge making, binary code bracelets, and more.
A big thank you to Michael Baddeley the Droids team for making this event possible. May the force be with you!
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Death Racers
You know the score...​
"Warriors of speed, today we stand on the brink of greatness, where only the boldest dare tread. Before you lies the power to create, to forge your own destiny, and to unleash the fury of the Death Racer. So, gear up, warriors. Let your motors roar, your courage rise, and may the best racer claim the crown, heads will roll!"
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Fans brought their racers to SMRRF. ​
There could only be ONE WINNER!!!!!
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Education Corner
This year we focused on educating the next generation of innovators. Those who had never used a 3D printer or 3D printing pen, came along to our 'Education Corner' to can give it a go.
Our awesome volunteers were on hand to show everyone the ropes.
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Visitors also had the chance to play with 3D printed games, fidget toys or to just get creative with some Lego.
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Jump of Doom
Workshop
An exciting, hands-on challenge with Inventor Club! Contestants built a cardboard car that could safely carry an orange "stuntperson" down a 6ft ramp and onto a landing ramp. With expert tuition and the freedom to innovate, this was a must for makers of all ages. How far did the cars jump and did the oranges survive? ​
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3D Printing Nerd's
Game Show!!!
Yup, you heard it right!
The fabulous Joel Telling from 3D Printing Nerd, will be hosted a Game Show during the event with incredible prizes.
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This was only for guests present at the event, so you had to be in it to win it.​
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Take A Break
This year we had a quiet room where you could kick back and get away from the high energy atmosphere of the event.
This room was open to all attendees, so visitors feet free to grab a coffee and chill out for a few mins.
There were even a few 3D printed games to have a go at...

Kids Invent Stuff
The fabulous team from 'Kids Invent Stuff' were at SMRRF. Attendees came along to say hi and have a chance to enter their most recent competition...
​Would their invention be built???
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Mini Robot Arena
3D 360 brought their Robot Arena!! Visitors came along to their stand to have a go at navigating these friendly dog robots.
Could you get yours to do a flip?
Sponsor Pack
If you're interested in being a sponsor, register here and we'll send the Sponsor deck to you. Read it carefully and if you're definitely going to join us, please fill in the the Sign-up Form at the back of the deck. This will generate an invoice so you can secure your spot.
Auction / Raffle form
Would you be up for donating something to our online Auction or Raffle?
As a general rule, the big ticket items go in the Auction and the smaller ones in the raffle. However, we'd love to have a big ticket item in the raffle on each of the days. Last year we were lucky enough to have Alan Mandic's printer and boy did it create a buzz. If you're up for donating something, please fill in this form. Thank you again for your support, we are so grateful.
Education Corner
We would love to have an area this year designated to the under 14's. In our minds it has 3D printed games, 3D printing pens, children friendly printers etc. If you know of any contacts that might be able to help make this happen, or is happy to help us out in this area, please do reach out to us on: info@sanjaymortimerfoundation.org. Thank you
