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24 alternatives to I turned a sketch into a 3D-print pegboard for my kid with an AI agent
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,…
A maker used an AI agent to convert a hand-drawn sketch of a pegboard into a 3D-printable design. By photographing a rough drawing and providing basic dimensions to an AI tool, they generated a working 3D model in… 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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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!
2025 · muffinman.io · its alternatives →
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Recently, we wanted to find a way to display Generative AI art in our office at Photoroom.
2023 · eliot.blog · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’m Zach one of the co-founders of Adam (https://www.adamcad.com). We're building AI-powered tools for CAD and 3D modeling [1]. We’ve recently been exploring a new way to bring GPT-style image editing directly into 3D model generation and are excited to showcase this in our web-app today. We’re calling it creative mode and are intrigued by the fun use cases this could create by making 3D generation more conversational! For example you can put a prompt in such as “an elephant” then follow it up by “have it ride a skateboard” and it preserves the context, identity and…
2025 · adamcad.com · its alternatives →
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Sketch2Code▲407Turn hand-drawn design into a HTML with AI. By Microsoft.
2019 · learn.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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Gravity Sketch▲154An app to easily create 3D models by sketching
2016 · gravitysketch.com · its alternatives →
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How to build your own AI art installation from scratch - GitHub - maxvfischer/DIY-ai-art: How to build your own AI art installation from scratch
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Transform 2D images into immersive 3D models with AI
2025 · its alternatives →
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I received a ticket from my product manager (my wife) to add a new feature for our largest customer (my kindergartner). The requirements doc included a worksheet from school that looked like this. I took that exact screenshot (blurriness, bad lighting, scribbles, and all) and…
2025 · mattsayar.com · its alternatives →
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I have been dreaming of creating things (arts, games, etc.), but that wouldn't be possible because I can hardly draw anything. But now with Stable Diffusion everything is hopeful again, so I further collected the AI magics that I considered necessary in creation activities, and integrated them into an Infinite draw board (like Figma). Hope that I can hear from you, any advice or suggestions will be really appreciated!
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Infinomni▲60Turn drawings into 3D creations you can play with and print
Sep 2026 · infinomni.com · 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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Easy 3D sketching for design and ideation
2021 · gravitysketch.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We're working on an AI studio product, and have been experimenting with the recently-released ControlNet (https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet) After wasting hours with it, we decided to put together a quick fun project. "Sketch" allows you to draw anything (works w/ touch inputs on mobile too), enter a prompt (it can be as simple as "drawing" and it'll try to guess) and you get something out fast. Keeping it all on a public feed as well, to serve as inspiration. Hope anyone here finds it fun :-)
2023 · clio.so · its alternatives →
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Your Idea. Our AI. Stunning Slides in Seconds.
2025 · sketchbubble.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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ToyForge▲3Turn sketches into 3D printable designer toys with AI
Jun 2026 · toyforge.art · its alternatives →
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Ideate AI▲12AI-Powered Sketch-to-Production and Concept Visualization
2025 · ideate.imagine.art · its alternatives →
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