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Ever wondered what it takes to mass-produce a new consumer product? I went inside the factories behind one of the most exciting tools I've seen — the new eufyMake E1, 3D-texture UV printer.
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- Title
- I Went Inside the Factory for the Insane Printer Everyone’s Talking About
- Authors
- Strange Parts
- Duration
- 41:13
- Published
- May 31 2025
Cool video but it should be noted that this is sponsored by the manufacturer.
The video being sponsored by Anker/eufy is one of the very first things he mentions in the video. The giant green "Sponsor" next to the title on YouTube also makes it pretty clear. And of course it's sponsored... it's a factory tour. Companies don't let just anyone wander into secure facilities like this to film their manufacturing processes. :P
Sure, but it was not clear from tildes when I clicked on the link. I would draw a distinction between a sponsored video with cuts between the tour to the device they are trying to sell and "free advertising" by letting someone tour your factory.
Fair enough. We could start using a
videos.sponsoredtopic tag for videos like this if there ends up being demand for it. But how often are these sorts of video ever really posted, and how useful would it really be? If a video of that nature ever got posted here that was egregiously bad or just blatant shilling for a product or service it would likely get removed as spam to begin with.I think a more generic tag bias.sponsored would be helpful, much like how research papers have a declaration of interest section. You could even expand the bias tag for various other forms of (objectively hopefully) bias.
I would pretty strongly object to a bias tag, specifically because it would itself inject a bunch of bias into the topic. Bias based on purely on the perception of the tag being included in the first place.
True, it would be hard to use objectively for tags other than sponsored (although there may be some other use cases). However, to specifically make sponsored content clear (and its impact on bias) is important and worth including in the tags.
Making people think more carefully about claims made in sponsored content to me is important, and too much stuff on social media in particularly blurs the lines.
Regardless of what such a tag would be called (if you want to avoid the word bias) I think it would be useful to be more generic and be able to applied to other content other than videos.
bias.cfabbro
;-)
I know it has almost always been a thing, but I have noticed an absolute flood of such sponsored videos- it seems almost every creator on Youtube has been gifted a BambuLabs device, for example (an attempt to recover lost goodwill, I bet)- lately. My feed is filled with Disney Imagineering and such money-backed nonsensery. I suppose it could just be further adjustments to the algorithm (tm).
The primary reason I have zero trust in companies like BambuLabs and Anker is their social media marketing. When everyone is bought by them then there are no trustworthy sources for opinions about their products. There is a huge difference between “This is a good product” and “This is a good product that is well worth the n units of currency I paid for it*. Anker in particular had done this with their previous FDM printer; it was everywhere for a while, but now has fallen from the face of the earth in terms of how often I have seen them in maker videos.
For Bambu at least the community consensus I’ve seen that their printers are good value mainly if you value good out of the box configuration and self-management (auto bed leveling, etc). For those seasoned in the art of 3D printing who can set up a cheaper, less automatic printer in their sleep the value is a bit more debatable. My A1 has been great as someone new to this field, though I have no point of comparison.
Anker though I agree should be approached with a bit more caution, at least for products outside of their charging stuff.
I also only really fully trust Anker when it comes to their chargers, adapters, and power banks too. I have a eufy RoboVac G30 and it's a great little machine for the price, but I can't speak to any of their other products since that's the only eufy device I've ever owned.
I've gotta say, prior to watching the video I was kind of annoyed to see a fully sponsored video on tildes, but it was actually a pretty cool video and it was nice to see a little bit of the machining etc.
Strange Parts' factory tour videos, which Scotty has done a bunch of over the years, are basically the modern day version of How It's Made. Of all the sponsored videos on YouTube, they are amongst the highest quality and most interesting (for anyone interested in industrial design or mechanical+electrical engineering), IMO... Hence why I post them here despite them being fully sponsored content. ;)
Anker have been going nuts with the sponsored/review videos for this thing. I’ve seen at least a dozen different videos from makers I follow on YouTube about this thing. Just off the top of my head, I know Tested and M.M.’s Prop Shop have done videos about it.
It does look pretty awesome though. Especially as an entry level device for people who want to give it a try without investing $10,000+ for a higher end version.
Saw another video on this thing (also sponsored).
Pretty cool. I think my most frequent usage would probably be printing art on canvases to hang up. Custom keycaps could also be fun, and I’m sure other uses would make themselves evident over time.
That said, it’s more difficult to justify the space it takes up compared to a 3D printer (which has significantly better practical utility). If I weren’t running some kind of business with one it seems like one of those things it’d be better to go to a hackerspace/makerspace and use a shared UV printer for.
I saw a gifted item video about this thing. While it wasn't sponsored, it was definitely a very talked about device. But I also saw the person actually testing it out on things that I would also use it for. It definitely made me want one, but the cost is so high. I will wait until these machines are either a little cheaper, or until I decide I really need one. It would be great for me given that I already spend so much on printing stickers and always worry that the printer will take my designs, but with this, you never know whether or not you're training their AI.
I wonder what type of design files are required to make these types of prints. It will do regular flat prints, but do you use the equivalent of some 3D application to make the raised effect? Pretty cool stuff.
Apparently it works using depth maps. There are some examples of them here: eufyMake E1 Depth Maps
This is super cool and wasn't aware of it in this format. Thanks for sharing.