If I’m looking at the right project it looks like it was super funded.
I wonder if this company has a good track record, not like the high funded “coolest cooler” that I funded and they didn’t deliver…
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It’s now the most-funded project on Kickstarter ever.
eufyMake is part of Anker Innovations, an $8B publicly traded corporation, with brands including:
- Anker (the best-selling mobile charging equipment brand in the world)
- eufy (vacuums, security cameras, lawn mower robots, smart lights)
- Soundcore (headphones, speakers)
- Roav (dashcams and Alexa integration for cars)
- Nebula (smart video projectors)
- Solix (power stations and solar generators)
There’s a factory tour video in one of the other threads showing the E1s being assembled at scale. Given the state of the machines and packaging all the way back in March/April when they were sending them out to testers and publications for reviews, they’ve been in production for a long time now and I wouldn’t be surprised if they already got stock into a US warehouse while the tariffs were “paused” not long ago. They seem pretty confident they’ll start shipping in July, which would be immediately after collecting addresses from the backers ~3 weeks from now.
They do have one black mark, which is ankerMake’s last Kickstarter. They were doing a multi-color filament switching 3D printer, it wasn’t working as planned and would have needed a full hardware redesign to salvage, so they cancelled the campaign and gave its backers a generous severance… IIRC either a full refund and some cash on top as an apology, or a $600 voucher to apply to an E1 pre-order.
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Thanks for posting this. I wasn’t in a place I could answer when @Aloha brought it up and kept meaning to get back to it today.
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I’m one of the originals from the kickstarter. I still lurk the forum and read the emails but my machine is losing power and I don’t think I would be able to get it fixed. I have a Mako at work and use that more than my GF. Always knew it would eventually become a brick, just kind-of ignoring it now. Similar to others, I learned a lot. Just can’t bring myself to buy more GF services. It was good at a time but I wouldn’t likely ever buy another, nor would I advise anyone to.
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This is still my favorite of all the places. 
And just today I saw piles of awesome from @evermorian
and @rappee25407
and @henryhbk
and that’s just the ones I noticed with 5y+ tenures! So ‘reports of our death may be somewhat exaggerated’…
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it’s not dead, it’s just slowing down in its old age (like the rest of us). still good content, but it’s more of us old-timers than newer people.
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One of the original founders, I still lurk to see what’s happening.
I’m still using the same machine that I used ten years ago while waiting for my Glowforge to arrive (I never used my GF before selling it on). Amazes me to hear that Glowforges are failing and people are moving on. My Chinese import gets hammered daily and cost a fair bit less. 
There’s still good content here which is why I lurk, I just post elsewhere nowadays.
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I’m till fairly new - I think I’ve had mine only 3 years. And still loving it, although I haven’t used it as much lately. But I’ll get back to it.
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You don’t have to be one of the original to be appreciated around here, we love your contributions.
We all wax and wane. I’ll go for weeks and then there will be a flurry of cutting.
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Thanks!
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I’m also an original backer. About the only time I’m on here is the check out the handful of posts that are highlighted in the summary email.
Ever since running the process to re-calibrate the camera, my machine has never run right. It thinks it can go farther to the right than it can and the laser is weaker the farther to the front of the machine it goes. I have to adjust the cut settings to a higher setting if I want it to cut all the way through and make sure I don’t place any objects too far to the right.
At this point, the tube is just getting too weak to use the PG settings. So the benefits of using PG material just isn’t there. I have to customize the settings every time. I just don’t use it like I used to since it’s a lot more work to get decent results now. There needs to be a setting that applies a defined power bump to all settings that we can set as the tube weakens.
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There actually is, you need to get support to do it though! Not sure they can do it more than once sadly. There’s also the ability to return your machine to pre-calibration settings but that also requires support and I have no idea if they can do it way after the fact.
Certainly worth asking though!
Fingers crossed your machine can get to a happy place again 
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I first got “online” in 1989, if bulletin boards count. I feel like there’s always been one primary community I’d spend time in, and it would eventually shift elsewhere. This forum has been my longest running “home base”. While it has quieted down, I still check in every day. I need to post and like more though, apparently, to stay… cool.
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I have also been part of many different communities, some for many years. This one is in the middle in terms of length of time.
I hope I never no longer have a laser. It’s an essential tool for me, and one of very few I was blessed to be able to keep.
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Twain!
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Ahhh bbs throw back
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You are awesome.
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awe, thanks!
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I’m a lurker who posted my working replica of a 1959 Wurlitzer stereo jukebox on this forum over three years ago. I’ve made plenty since, including tide clocks that house a working Raspberry Pi with display that look like vintage RCA TV’s from the '60s. I also make a lot of practical things like mounts for dashcams and brackets for holding IR sensors for tracking flywheel RPMs in my model O-scale trains. I’ve made trophies for a local not-for-profit that conducts an annual kayak race on the river that runs past my home.
I mention all these because I am a relatively active GF user. I read through every GF user summary that arrives in my in-box. I don’t post much here because I find some of the beautiful work many of you do surpasses the things I do. I’ve never considered myself to have much artistic talent. So I just read and admire. Please keep posting.
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I remember that Wurlitzer!
So cool! We’d love to see more of your projects, they sound fascinating 
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