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"3D printing fails when it's asked to do the same thing that a traditional manufacturing process already does," co-founder Dan Oliver told Quartz. He said the company was born out of Harvard's material science lab and the research of Professor Jennifer Lewis. Oliver said the name Voxel8 is a combination of "voxel"--which is a pixel with volume--and a play on the word "pixelate," meaning to digitize an image. And that's basically what its printer will let you do: make physical objects with digital elements.

Voxel8's first printer comes with two printing heads--one prints standard 3D printer plastic, and the other spits out its proprietary material that's electrically conductive. Oliver said it has the consistency of peanut butter and allows you to print circuits right into an object. The company used its printer to build a working quadcopter drone in one sitting. Oliver said that it's possible to print a computer's motherboard with the Voxel8: "We're there, we can do that."

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