Yes, like its 3D printer brethren, it works a bit like a hot glue gun.

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Using a handheld glue gun, and armed with a home-cooked slurry of polyethylene and candle wax, he built the shape layer by layer.

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O'Reilly media's three-year-old quarterly magazine, Make, is the manifesto for do-it-yourselfers, urging people to unleash their creativity with a screwdriver and a glue gun.

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Getting up, deciding on what decorations to put on the canes, firing up the hot glue gun, doing the decorating and going out to buy supplies is a kind of schedule.

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Researchers at ETH Zurich are working to change that scenario, as they're currently developing a "self-reconfigurable" device that packs a glue gun for creating the tools it needs on the fly.

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The heads operate along the X and Y axes, while the build platform (generally heated in the case of ABS and unheated for PLA) moves downward, allowing the glue gun-like extruders to build up the thin layers of plastic.

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To demonstrate just how far the banker's suit has come, we decided to photograph them on a particularly nonestablishment group of men: brilliant woodworkers who, while appreciative of craft, have about as much need for a tailored jacket as a glue gun.

WSJ: Against the Grain

As if that wasn't enough, the installer apparently also used tape to hold the GPS unit in place, installed the antennae on the inside of the car instead of the outside, and used a glue gun to install the speakers instead of bolting them in place.

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