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The 'hot glue' is thin enough and needs to be hot enough to let you 'float' what you're drawing in mid air, hot glue would stay viscous for too long to let that
by mercuryrising 14y ago
The 'hot glue' is thin enough and needs to be hot enough to let you 'float' what you're drawing in mid air, hot glue would stay viscous for too long to let that happen.
- joshmlewis 14y agoYeah I think this is what a lot of people are missing with the glue gun comments. With a glue gun you can make a blob at the base but you can't string a piece along like this, much less string a piece along in mid air. This also has the fan which helps in that matter.
- mbell 14y agoThats caused by the material, not the gun. The kickstarter says they use standard ABS/PLA 3mm plastic for the material. The first rep-rap 3D printer used a tweaked hot glue gun as the extruder.
- ajasmin 14y agoI'd like to see more mid-air drawing in action. The video only shows how to make a spiral, a cube and some finishing touch on the dinosaur. Though they are showing photos of objects that must have been created this way, it's not clear how well this goes in practice. It seems the Eiffel Tower is made by drawing over a CAD printout and welding the pieces together.