3D Printing Pittsburgh: Makerspace Meetup During RAPID Brought Together Ultimaker, MatterHackers, Make:, Makers – 3DPrint.com

Not all of the excitement this month in Pittsburgh was housed at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, as the Steel City welcomed members of the global additive manufacturing community for a very busy week. On the penultimate night of RAPID + TCT, I found myself in an Uber with some of the LulzBot crew as we convinced our confused driver that, yes, the open garage was where we meant to be and that this was a meeting for makers, not bikers. HackPittsburgh opened its (garage) doors to the maker community as 3DPPGH — 3D Printing Pittsburgh — hosted its monthly meeting, using the convenient timing overlap with RAPID to add special guests to the night’s agenda, including:

• Matt Griffin from Ultimaker
• MatterHackers
• Matt Stultz

A 3D printing who’s who in a makerspace

The evening kicked off casually, as the local makers welcomed additions from around the country, chatting…