The hot glue sticks are fed into the nozzle with the help of a 3D printed gear and a stepper motor driver. After the break, you can see [Chris]’s hot glue gun RepRap printing a 10cm cube.

A glue gun that dispenses molten PLA instead of hot glue turned out to be a handy tool for joining 3D-printed objects together, once I had figured out how to print my own “glue” sticks out of PLA.

Maker Jón Schone recently showcased a slick new design that bridges the chasm between his first love of 3D printing - and hot glue guns. Earlier this week, on Schone’s YouTube channel ‘Proper ...

The new approach – dubbed “3D Pin” – involved forming semiconductor nanocrystals that were suspended in a specially designed colloidal ink. The team then added a molecular “glue” to ...