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The Idea Desk · Crew Country

Invent your own toy

Tell Norman, the Lab’s own computer, an idea. In about two minutes it becomes a 3D toy you can spin and paint.

Free to design · $24.99 to print at the Printer Ranch in Austin (a grown-up pays)

The Idea Desk: a little teal desk with a yellow bulb lamp, a pinboard and Tex the robot
Every toy starts at this desk.
The Imaginator
Tex, the Lab robot

Howdy! I’m Tex. What are we making today?

How it works

  1. You imagine itType it, say it, snap a drawing, or pick a crew member to change.
  2. Norman draws itThe Lab’s own computers in Austin turn the idea into a 3D model you can spin and paint with the colors the printers have loaded.
  3. The Printer Ranch prints itA grown-up orders it for $24.99. Joseph checks the design, and one of our printers makes it layer by layer.
  • Free to design
  • No account needed
  • Photos never kept
  • Joseph checks it before it prints
  • Printed in Austin

Designing is free and needs no account. The 3D model is made by AI on the Lab’s computers, so each design is a picture of an idea until it is printed. Ideas are checked before anything is drawn, and photos are never kept. The Imaginator runs in the United States and some other countries. Data & AI · Privacy · Safety