tired of old laminated 3d patterns

Tired of the same old, boring laminated pattern that's in all of your 3D printed stuff? Industrial design student Vimal Patel was, and so he decided to fashion himself a 3D doodler, out of a hot glue gun which he modded with a custom Lego extruder. You know, obviously.

According to Patel's website, the idea began with a university project where he was asked to design something using biodegradable, 3D filament. The goal was to explore monomateriality, or making products with a single material—a concept that's grown in popularity since the advent of 3D printing. While a typical multimaterial consumer product may contain foam, plastic, adhesive and half a dozen more materials, all shipped from different parts of the world, products composed of a single material cost less carbon to produce and are far easier to recycle.