Over the last few weeks, Hackaday has been experimenting with and reviewing the eufyMake E1 UV printer, which convinced them to back the printer’s phenomenally successful Kickstarter campaign.
The printer can print color images on 3D objects, PCB boards, and more, and does so with high precision, although it has limitations.
It’s designed for average consumers, not hardware hackers, so its limitations include a lack of local control (all functions are performed through the cloud), a friction bed that prevents the use of fixtures to hold down objects for batch processing, and more.
But it’s fairly inexpensive for a printer with its capabilities, so it’s likely to become popular and spawn competitors that will eventually overcome its limitations.
Hackaday concludes that it’s reminiscent of the MakerBot Cupcake, one of the first consumer-market 3D printers, and that its limitations will be cured by future models.
