Please welcome the probably most important (relatively) low-budget 3D printer for 2015: @Voxel8_3D_Electronic Hats off to Jennifer A. Lewis and her team…
Crazy to see how involved @Autodesk is in all cool 3DP projects!
“First” depends on the definition: http://www.nano-di.com/ was already announced last october. Also, if you want to extend your own 3D printer with an additional silver-ink print head, start here: https://123d.circuits.io/shop/circuitscribe#accessories
“Worlds first” is shorthand for “i can’t be bothered to spend 5 minutes searching the web for prior art”.
Nah, come on guys… give credit, where credit is due. Of course there’s always something even earlier, something more experimental (ever seen the “everything is a remix” series? absolutely true in my eyes: http://everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/).
So why credit for voxel8? Because they bring it to a product stage. The team around Jennifer Lewis (google her!) is very talented - they’re not coming from the maker’s scene, but from academia. They did some awesome work over the last years, which they’re now commercialising. Fair enough in my eyes.
Also their collaboration with Autodesk will bring some very much needed software to the table. Or anybody has a 3D EAGLE version somewhere? 
@Alexander_Merz : NanoDi or EX1 (http://www.cartesianco.com/) are much more focused on 3D (in terms of multilayer) PCB prototyping. I don’t regard it as 3d printing at all. voxel8 seems to combine those at a much larger degree, right?
@Florian_Horsch_flouS I agree, the Voxel is “real 3D”. To me, the PCB printers seems to match more real world requirements the next years. The Voxel only addresses a really small niche today, because the designs can’t be transformed into mass production designs at the current state.I expected such a printer this or next year, but not as a commercial product from the beginning.
@Alexander_Merz absolutely true! I think the @Voxel8_3D_Electronic platform will also unveil it’s full potential when the team is opening their broad material expertise… here’s one of their most prominent research topics: http://3dprintingindustry.com/2014/07/04/3d-printing-material-light-weight-balsa-wood/ (3DPI seems to have website issues currently…)
The thing is, by claiming to be the worlds first, you discredit the work of others who came before you, and you mislead people who don’t know better. In many cases people who make these claims are building on top of the work of the same people they are taking credit away from, and in many cases the true pioneers did it on their own time and their own dime.
I apologize if this sounds harsh, I’m just frustrated with the endless stream of “innovators” who take an open-source project, take it to the most obvious step that is “monatizable” and then launch a kickstarter campaign on the grounds of “worlds first” whatever.
“Haters gonna hate”, that defense worked so well for Bre… 
@Jason_Gullickson you’re right - it’s really up to us as a community to judge on wether they have the “moral right” in our eyes to put this term on their marketing material or not.
Personally for me, it’s a legit “first”. Everybody talked about it, many dreamed about it, many complained (including myself) that the software isn’t there yet. And they just changed all of this - of course: with perfect US academic reputation and connections, probably VC money, etc.
But they did it - if the prototype/beta product will hold up to the hype… let’s see!
And here’s another safe bet: There will be many to jump onto the way they paved - and that’s good for everybody!
I mean $9000 + possibly proprietary cartridges isn’t a “first electronics printer for everybody’s wallet” right?
Another positive note: I like the “sewing machine”-style of placing the filament spool at the bottom. Also the magnetic bed holder is a nice idea.
Guys, it’s the real deal. It’s fast and it works. Capacitance sensors, wires, etc…I’ll post video, I somehow missed a photo, but I was seeing up a booth.
But I don’t have $9k either, maybe they will sell the conductive paste for our own experiments?