Cerambot's Eazao 3D Prints in Clay and Porcelain — and Fires Your Creations in the Microwave

Clever printer lets you create your own ceramics at home, though some backers of the original Cerambot are still awaiting their rewards.

Gareth Halfacree
4 years ago3D Printing

Cerambot is back on the crowdfunding circuit with a next-generation cearmic 3D printer, the Eazao, which it claims turns any home or office into a custom pottery studio — and that uses a simple microwave as its kiln.

Cerambot successfully funded its eponymous first-generation kit-form Arduino-driven ceramic 3D printer two years ago, raising just short of $290,000 to bring the delta-style device to market. Now, it's looking to produce a more polished follow-up device, easier to use and ready-to-run out of the box following what it describes as "a lot of great suggestions and feedback" from recipients of its original model.

The Cerambot Eazao prints ceramics - and an add-on turns your home microwave into a kiln. (📹: Cerambot)

"Eazao is easy to use, produces brilliant ceramics and features all the upgrades that our community asked for," claims Cerambot's Haoran Zheng. "Cerambot Eazao is ready to use out-of-the-box, the whole machine arrives fully assembled. That means you don’t have to waste time reading manuals and putting parts together."

"The Cerambot Eazao has been upgraded with a Cartesian structure system that precisely coordinates the location of the print head by way of a system of rails that have more rigid axes than typical Delta system printers. This rigid system means less printing errors and it produces a better surface finish than prints from a Delta printer so that your creations have finer details and texture."

Other improvements to the design include an increased print speed of up to 40mm per second (around 1.57in per second), an electric push-rod in place of the usual air compressor, and a new glaze which can be applied at the same time as the ceramic is fired — using a standard, unmodified home microwave in place of a kiln.

Cerambot is offering the Eazao to backers at $429 under Early Bird pricing, though only higher-tier and more-expensive rewards include the add-on to turn a microwave into a kiln for firing the prints. Those looking to back the project can do so on Kickstarter, but should be warned that multiple backers of the original design have yet to receive functional hardware two years on.

Gareth Halfacree
Freelance journalist, technical author, hacker, tinkerer, erstwhile sysadmin. For hire: freelance@halfacree.co.uk.
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