Software R&D studio
LilyLabs builds tools for the 3D-printing community, playful web games and small inventions for everyday life. This page is one of them. Drop the marble and scroll along.
01What we do
We are a small studio with three product tracks and one door for partners. Everything we make starts the same way: with a problem people have stopped noticing.
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Generators that output real, printable geometry. Slicer automation that knows print time and grams before you commit. Tools for print farms and sellers.
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Browser games and physics toys that load in a second, run on a phone and feel good to touch. Like the one carrying a marble down this page.
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Small, private tools for problems people put up with every day. When we can, we reuse the hardware you already own.
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Have a strange idea? Give us two weeks and we'll bring back a working spike, an honest verdict and a plan, not a slide deck.
02Case studies
Real projects with honest status labels. Every domino in the machine carries one of them.
3D-print software
Design a charm bracelet in the browser. Get a print-ready, multi-colour file sized to your wrist.
Read the case study →
3D print · Working MVP
Upload an STL. Get a price from an actual slice, not a guess from its bounding box.
3D print · Prototype
Bake real surface texture into a model, so the texture is in the geometry, not just painted on.
3D print · Prototype
A child's drawing becomes a glossy 3D charm that snaps onto a bracelet.
Games · Live on this site
The page you're scrolling is a physics toy. Every section is a contraption.
Everyday · In development
Two old phones become a private baby monitor. No cloud, no subscription.
Everyday · Working MVP
A private, offline AI that reads your contracts and explains them against Swedish commercial law.
03The Lab
Like the marble on the peg board, an idea bounces through many paths before it finds one that works. Here's what's bouncing right now. These are research directions, labelled honestly by stage.
Games
Spike“What if beating a level in a web game gave you the level itself, as a real object?”
A physics puzzle game where every level you solve can be exported as a printable marble run. The game engine already knows the geometry, and the physics proves it works.
3D print
Sketch“Can we predict that a print will fail before it starts?”
Read the 3MF and score the risk: thin contact with the bed, long unsupported bridges, tall thin towers, colour changes in fragile layers. Show a weather-style forecast, such as '70% chance of warping on the left corner'.
3D print
Prototype“Why does every snap fit need three test prints?”
Print one small coupon with a ladder of clearances. Photograph it after snapping the pieces together, and the tool works out your printer's real tolerance, then feeds it back into every generator we make.
Everyday
Sketch“What if you could replace a broken plastic part with a photo and a coin for scale?”
Photograph the broken part next to a coin of known size. A parametric template (knob, clip, hook or cap) fits itself to the outline, and you print a replacement in minutes.
3D print
Sketch“How much filament is left on this spool?”
Estimate the filament left from a phone photo of the spool's side, using the known spool size and the wound diameter. The estimate is checked against grams already used from slicer logs.
04How we work
Four steps, round and round like the funnel. Most ideas drop out at step three, and we're fine with that.
We collect small frustrations, ours and the community's, and look for the ones everyone has stopped seeing.
We turn each one into an odd question. Not 'a better slicer' but 'can we predict the failure before the print starts?'
A working prototype in days, not a deck in weeks. We throw most of them away, and that's the point.
The survivors get real engineering: tests, docs, runbooks, and a product people can trust.
05Our instruments
Each xylophone bar is a technology we know well. Turn the sound on (🔇 bottom right) and the marble plays them for you.
06Good questions
07Contact
★ The marble made it. Nice.
Tell us about it. A product idea, a two-week R&D sprint, a tool your print farm is missing, or a game that should exist. We read everything.
Lily Labs AB · hej@lilylabs.se