There was a time when a cheap 3D printer meant a highly questionable "Prusa i3" clone in the form of a kit of parts, with the cheapest possible components that, when assembled, provided a uniquely immersive experience . Most hackerspaces have one of these cheap printers gathering dust somewhere, usually with a rat-nest wire hanging from one side of it. But those awesome kits have been displaced by the sub-$200 printers that are good now, so what's the current low end of the market? The answer lies in printers like the sub-$100 Easythreed X1, Reviewed by All3DP, We've been curious about this printer for a while, but $100 is a bit much to spend on a toy, so it's interesting to see their opinions on it.
This is a small printer marketed as a children's toy with an unheated bed and a miniature 100mm cubic print volume, so we don't blame them for lowering our expectations. He found the supplied slicer to be buggy, but the printer itself was surprisingly better than he expected. It may seem like easyThread can deliver reasonable but not-so-excellent small prints in the midst of an occasional disaster, but for less than $100, we estimate that any print is a result. Still, we'll join them in their assessment that it's worth spending a little more on a better printer.
We've seen another small Easythreed model before, when someone made A novelty wrist-mounted wearable version,
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