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My Tech Fun tests €299 UGEE FunBox, a 120mm kid printer with no heated bed

UGEE lists the FunBox at €349, on sale for €299, built around a 120x120x120mm volume aimed at children aged 4 to 12 (3:16). My Tech Fun put it through setup, filament changes and a print using both UGEE’s own filament and a spool of Bambu Lab PLA Basic.

The spec sheet shown on screen (1:05, 1:24) covers a lot of ground for a sub-€300 machine:

Spec Value
Build volume 120 x 120 x 120 mm
Max print speed 500 mm/s
Min layer height 0.05 mm
Max nozzle temp 260°C
Bed temp Room temperature (unheated)
Weight 4.04 kg
Power 60 W
Camera 2 MP

The unheated bed is the detail worth noting: UGEE’s own spool label for PLA Rainbow Shift calls for a 45-60°C bed (2:46), which the FunBox cannot supply, and the reviewer separately estimates 50-55°C as the desirable heated-bed range for this material (10:04).

The box ships with a 200g starter spool plus seven 250g accessory spools (2:30, 2:33), and the reviewer clocks roughly 8 meters of filament lost to each color change (2:43) when running the multi-spool setup. Wi-Fi is 2.4GHz only, no 5GHz (6:32). The reviewer also tested a third-party 1kg spool (14:31) and found a replacement nut using a standard M6 thread with 2mm pitch, scaled to size 20 (15:54).

Preheat timing numbers are shown (92°C/230°C, then 104°C/230°C at 7:18) but not converted into a total warm-up time, and the camera’s frame rate is only an estimate of 1-2 fps (8:18), not a spec UGEE publishes.

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