Learn how hot glue sticks are used to 3D print cost-effective, flexible, and colorful options for innovative creations. Hot glue sticks can ...

A Dremel hot glue gun supplies the hot end, whose mains heater cartridge is replaced with a low voltage one with he help of a piece of brass tube.

A key difference is that 3D printers use specially formulated filament, not hot glue sticks. But Schone mused that glue gun low-tech could benefit the world of 3D printers.

Given some biodegradable 3D printing filament and tasked with doing something creative with it, Vimal Patel built an extruder using Lego, attached it to a rather ordinary hot glue gun and ended up ...

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.

Use your hot glue gun as a 3D printer Plastic made its way into mainstream consumer goods in the middle of the 20th century, and it has truly taken over.