AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to I made a tiny book using a pen-plotter and AI
Hey HN, I want to share a personal project: I made a tiny pen-plotted book for my wife. I did everything myself—drawings (with some help from Midjourney), plotting, cutting, and binding. I even used a 3D printer to make a helper tool. It's absolutely over-engineered, but I enjoyed it a lot. Multi-disciplinary projects, especially those with a physical output, are a lot of fun for me. The post covers the process in detail, but if you're interested in anything specific, let me know. Cheers!
A creator combined pen-plotting, AI-generated art, and 3D printing to produce a handmade miniature book as a personal gift. Using Midjourney for artwork generation, a pen-plotter for drawing, and custom 3D-printed… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Two of my friends recently welcomed their first child and I "wrote" a kid's book for them using ChatGPT for the story and Midjourney for illustrations. The plot was sourced from a group of friends.
2023 · adventure-of-penelope.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that people may witness the end-to-end experience.
2024 · lostpixels.io · its alternatives →
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Generative art coded in p5.js and pen plotted using an AxiDraw V3/A3.
2023 · adamfuhrer.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · shushantlakhyani.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Create plotter-like line drawings from your images.
2021 · javier.xyz · its alternatives →
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I've had an idea for a long time to generate a cute coloring book based on family photos, send it to a printing service, and then deliver it to people. Last month, when OpenAI's Sora was released for public use I (foolishly) thought I'd manually drag-and-drop each order’s photos into Sora's UI and copy the resulting images back into my system. This took way too much time (about an hour for each of the few books I made and tested with family and friends). It clearly wasn't possible to release this version because I’d be losing a huge amount of time on every order. So instead, I decided I'd…
2025 · clevercoloringbook.com · its alternatives →
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MidReal▲317Create interactive stories with AI, one choice at a time
2024 · midreal.ai · its alternatives →
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A tiny book of design exercises
2016 · 5264002956444.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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SourcePilot▲158It’s been a while since I’ve started to write a book . The process of creation of it has not been easy , first because I’m not a writer , I’ve created well though out internet posts here and there, which ended up creating my first book. It was a good experience , but then I’ve started to think that a book that just gathered my thoughts online it’s not entirely “writing” a book , I needed more. And than I’ve opened google docs and start typing. Then I started to figure out what I wanted to write: should it be a fantasy story, a self-biography, or an observation of the world? I believe most…
Nov 2025 · sourcepilot.co · its alternatives →
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Create, collaborate and share your doodle art drawings
2022 · blog.cloudhq.net · its alternatives →
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We have pegboards and plywood all over our apartment, and I had an idea to make a tiny pegboard for my kid, Oli. So I naturally cut the wood, drilled in the holes, sat down at the computer to open Fusion 360 and spend an hour or two drawing the pieces by hand. Then I looked at the rough sketch Oli and I had made together, took a photo of it, pasted it into Codex, and gave it just two dimensions: the holes are 40mm apart and the pegs are 8mm wide. To my surprise, 5 minutes later my 3D printer was heating up and printing the first set. I ran it a few times to tune the dimensions for ideal fit,…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Your guide to unlocking Midjourney's artistic potential
2023 · buymeacoffee.com · its alternatives →
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A tiny book on how to draw at work
2016 · 5264002956444.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Hey together with wife we took part in AssemblyAI hackathon and although we didn't win we felt good enough about our inital MVP that we took it a bit further. You can describe your characters and give a title and however long/detailed description you want, the gpt-3 will generate a children's story from it, dall-e will generate images. Images are postprocessed with stable-diffusion custom model (for stylisation) and that's the final result. It's still early as it was done in about 2 weeks, but I count on your feedback. I am software engineer and did basically all of the engineering work…
2022 · childbook.ai · its alternatives →
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2020 · docs.google.com · its alternatives →
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LayerGen AI▲90Generate print-ready D&D miniatures from text or image
Apr 2026 · layergen.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm an author and I spent 2+ years writing my first book and getting it published. After my experience, I realized that 99% of all business books follow the same structure. So, with the rise of AI solutions, we asked ourselves if we could simplify the process to help first-time authors achieve their dream of writing and publishing a book. Together with a friend, we created First Book ai. Now, we can create coherent, full-size books in hours, saving first-time authors years in the process. We hope this tool will be helpful for as many upcoming authors as possible. Would love your…
2024 · firstbook.ai · its alternatives →
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Just finished my second year at college studying Computer Science, and wanted to try and gain experience as a full stack dev this summer, so I made a website that allows users to create stories using openai's API, using embeddings for custom terms users can define, and create short stories and chapters alike. I'm mainly just looking for some feedback on how I can improve it or make it more presentable, so any help/feedback is welcome and appreciated!
2023 · plotnotes.ai · its alternatives →
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Immortalize your love with an AI-generated printed portrait
2023 · imajinn.ai · its alternatives →
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YouStory▲39When the Gemini storybook demo was released, we were thrilled to see others shared our vision for interactive storytelling. Great minds, it seems, think alike! We were already deeply immersed in building YouStory, and that shared excitement only fueled our obsession with execution, pushing us to create an even more polished and magical experience. Our AI agent lets you upload a photo of your child, their pet, drawings, doodles or a favorite toy to star as the hero. We combine this with a premium, non-generic art style and a collaborative agent you guide through conversation, making the…
2025 · youstory.io · its alternatives →
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How I built a pixel-perfect animated hero section using Midjourney, a custom Python processing pipeline, and Astro View Transitions.
Jan 2026 · sarthakmishra.com · its alternatives →
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