VoxelMatters

23/06/2026

This summer, a former prison in Haarlem is hosting four designers with one shared obsession: making things differently.
The 3D Print Gallery opens its fourth exhibition on July 1. A light sculpture inspired by microscopic sea organisms. A chair that moves like seaweed. A wall lamp 3D printed in recycled PETG using a rotating process that celebrates the traces of fabrication rather than hiding them. Ceramic tiles that ripple like waves.
All made with 3D printing. All asking the same question: what does sustainable design actually look like?
🔗 Full story at the link in bio.

18/06/2026

What is this diver doing?

He is planting the future of a reef.
In the Maldives, reef restoration company rrreefs placed 13 flower-shaped structures on the ocean floor of a lagoon in South Malé Atoll. 3D printed in fired terracotta clay, each structure is designed with tiny cavities between the printed layers, giving coral larvae a place to attach, grow, and shelter from predators.
They called it Theyra Maa. In Dhivehi, it means 13 flowers.
Coral reefs are disappearing. 3D printing is giving them somewhere to come back to.
🔗 Full story at the link in bio.
📷 Images: rrreef, Reefscapers and Anantara Dhigu Maldives Resort.

15/06/2026

What if a house could feed you, shelter you, and leave almost nothing behind? WASP built one to find out.
Itaca is a self-sufficient 3D printed farm in Northern Italy. Walls made from lime and rice husks, vertical hydroponic systems, passive ventilation, zero traditional cement. Certified, replicable, and open to researchers from around the world.
WASP calls it a living model.
🔗 Full story at the link in bio.

10/06/2026

Not every opening gets an electric unicycle entrance. This one did.
VoxelMatters tries to be everywhere in the additive manufacturing world. We know we can’t always make it.
But some places are worth the ride.
Reaching Axtra3D’s brand new facility in Vicenza for their grand opening felt like exactly where we were supposed to be.

Congratulations. Here’s to new beginnings.

3DPrinting

03/06/2026

Flax and h**p have been used for thousands of years. Now they’re showing up in robotic winding machines, 3D printed shoes, and architectural pavilions.

A look at how biocomposite manufacturing is moving well beyond traditional lay-up.

🔗 Full article in bio.

01/06/2026

27/05/2026

Ferrari’s first EV is out. And the reaction says it all.
The Luce has 1,036 hp, designed by Jony Ive, $640,000. And it looks nothing like a Ferrari. What’s interesting from our perspective is that Ferrari knows additive manufacturing well. They use it in Formula 1 and in their ICE road cars. With the Luce, it wasn’t part of the picture.
Czinger, Bugatti Rimac, BYD are all heavy AM users. And all making the most exciting cars on the market right now.
Curious about what AM could have done for the Luce? Davide Sher’s full take on VoxelMatters.
VoxelMatters

25/05/2026

Davide’s full analysis on color 3D printing covers a lot of ground. We did our best to fit it into a carousel.
Stratasys’ J850 Prime still sets the benchmark with voxel-level color and up to 7 materials simultaneously. Mimaki gets close with over 10 million colors. But multicolor filament systems are now available for under $500. Bambu Lab, Creality, Elegoo, Snapmaker, Prusa, all pushing what desktop printing can do in color.
The quality gap is real. But it’s closing.
Full article on VoxelMatters. Link in bio.
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21/05/2026

SLA, DLP, LCD. Three acronyms that have defined resin 3D printing for decades. But the technology has moved well past those labels.
Each approach has always had a trade-off. Laser SLA is precise but slow. DLP is fast but edges are blockier. LCD is affordable but lower power. For years, you had to pick your compromise.
Three systems are changing that. The PSLA 270 by 3D Systems keeps the open-vat geometry of classical SLA but replaces the laser with dual projectors; DLP speed without membrane distortion. Formlabs’ Form 4 rebuilds the inverted LCD architecture from scratch, solving the peel and reliability problems that have always limited that geometry. Axtra3D’s Lumia X1 runs a projector and a laser simultaneously, each doing what it does best in a single pass.
The trade-off isn’t gone. But it’s shrinking fast.
Full analysis by Davide Sher on VoxelMatters at the link in bio.
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