Anker today announced the launch of AnkerMake, a 3D printing business. The AnkerMake M5, the company’s first printer, just made its Kickstarter debut, with a $499 price tag. The low price includes a complete feature set, including cameras that do AI-powered printing monitoring, allowing the printer to halt if something goes wrong. Anker has carved out a place for itself as a firm that manufactures a wide range of the types of things you can get on Alibaba for next to nothing – battery packs, wireless charging docks, and high-speed USB chargers for phones, laptops, and whatever else.
The twist is that Anker really has working quality control and excellent customer service, which sets it distinct from things like “gosh, I hope this doesn’t catch fire the first time I plug it in.” Anker also has the Eufy home goods brand, the Soundcore audio and smart wearables brand, the Nebula home projector brand, and the AnkerWork office brand. The new AnkerMake brand fits into this array of low-cost, high-quality items — and adds a few extra bells and whistles to the realm of 3D printing.
Home 3D printing has long been hailed as the future of… well, that’s the problem with the market: it never quite figured out what it wanted to be the future of, so it’s been consigned to hobbyist laboratories, maker spaces, and as a toy. For novices, entry-level printers have proven painfully, frustratingly unreliable, putting a rapid nail in the coffin. A big number of printers are condemned to the graveyard of forgotten oddities if two-thirds of your prints fail after an hour and it takes a lot of trial and error to find out how to make it all work. AnkerMake is attempting to carve out a place in this area.
“We can picture a world where thoughts and creative concepts may be instantaneously turned into real form thanks to 3D printers.” “However, the fact is that 3D printing may be sluggish, inconvenient, and difficult to understand,” Anker Innovations CEO Steven Yang stated. “AnkerMake is dedicated to eliminating these stumbling blocks so that artists, inventors, amateurs, and DIY enthusiasts may benefit from a more practical tool to bring their inventions to life.” The M5 is made to be set up fast, as well as to be used and maintained. It has a 7-point auto-leveling system, a PEI soft magnetic printing bed, auto-resume after a power interruption, and printing alerts. It also has a couple high-speed moves up its sleeve.
The AnkerMake M5 features a standard print speed of 250 mm/s, which is ideal for applications that demand a smoother, more detailed finish. The M5 can push itself to 10x the feed speed for quicker print tasks, such as prototyping and less elaborate finishes, which may substantially cut print times. The built-in camera monitors your print jobs and automatically stops them if it detects an issue – a miracle when compared to manually monitoring the process or returning to a printer with a large spaghetti mess of filament. It saves both time (you can rectify the problem or restart the print) and resources (you don’t have to waste print materials).
The AnkerMake M5 features a standard print speed of 250 mm/s, which is ideal for applications that demand a smoother, more detailed finish. The M5 can push itself to 10x the feed speed for quicker print tasks, such as prototyping and less elaborate finishes, which may substantially cut print times. The built-in camera monitors your print jobs and automatically stops them if it detects an issue – a miracle when compared to manually monitoring the process or returning to a printer with a large spaghetti mess of filament. It saves both time (you can rectify the problem or restart the print) and resources (you don’t have to waste print materials). The Kickstarter campaign has 44 days remaining to go.
