Make a 3D printed Makie doll on your tablet!

MakieLab, the 3D-printed toy company my wife Alice founded, has just shipped its first tablet-based doll-builder: the Makies Doll Factory!

We think designing Makies with fingers feels really cool, like proper making. And, we've revamped the pricing for real-life Makies, so you can order only the hair, accessories and clothes you want with your doll - which makes most Makies a bit cheaper too! App users get this first (we re-jigged the shop along with the app, to make this possible), and we'll be rolling it out to www.makie.me later this week.

MAKIES iPAD APP OUT NOW!

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Will I get banned for saying these look like creepy Xbox Live Avatar homunculi? Because I’m sorry, Cory and Alice, but they kinda do…
- Boundegar
  
  Banished to the Uncanny Valley!
- http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
  
  They’re still fun, but yes, also still very creepy.
  
  I hope they’re selling like hotcakes though, even though Alice (who is a charming human being) didn’t commission my project when she worked at C4 *glares menacingly*
- http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers
  
  Eyebrows would help. Yes, they are amazingly creepy.
  - Jake Rennie
    
    They do have eyebrows. They’re flesh-coloured eyebrows.
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Makes me think of certain scenes from Barbarella!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

I’m glad the models have a range of skin tones and detailed eyes. The white ones with black opal eyes had an unfortunate Village of the Damned vibe.
http://twitter.com/yumtacos yumtacos

Are they sturdy enough for a small child (5 yr old girl who wants a doll who looks like her… but nobody makes one like that)? Or are these more “toys for adults” than baby dolls?
http://greggman.com greggman

Reminds me of
http://www.myrobotnation.com/
Mike The Bard

Please pass along to Alice the thing that keeps me from ordering one: FACIAL HAIR. Everybody I know that I’d love to present a figure of themselves to has a beard and/or moustache.
Box of Cotton Swabs

iPad. Make a 3D printed Makie doll on your iPad.
sixta

The real black skintone dolls look rough or somehow unfinished.
http://www.facebook.com/stuart.kaufman.92 Stuart Kaufman

It would be helpful if an app is ios specific that you use the term ipad rather than “tablet”.
- http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
  
  Like how when something says it works on PC it means Windows, Linux and Mac, right?
  - madzack
    
    wait wait wait are MACs PCs now?
    - http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
      
      They are personal computers, sure. What did you think they were? :p
      - http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki
        
        they most certainly are not personal.
        
        They’re IC if anything.
        
        edit: sorry.
        iC
        
        There, much better.
      - http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
        
        Oh, how very droll :)
    - http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
      
      Although they’re not called PCs. But for no better reason than you could choose to not call an android tablet a tablet. Which was kind of my point.
http://wonderlandblog.com Crystaltips

Hi Nathan :-P