Face it, we’ve all at some time or other looked at our hot glue guns, and thought “I wonder if I could use that for 3D printing!”. [Proper Printing] didn’t just think it, he’s made a ...

The result is a bit like a plus-sized 3D-printing pen, but much simpler and capable of much heavier extrusion. But it wasn’t quite as simple as shoving scrap PLA into a hot glue gun and mashing ...

By scanning cross-sections generated from a 3D digital model of the required part, the laser selectively fuses pre-defined areas of a powder bed. Once each cross-section is scanned, a new material ...