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Hyperwood – Open-Source Furniture

by panic on 4/22/25, 3:50 PM with 12 comments

  • by tmpfs on 4/22/25, 6:48 PM

    As somebody with a wooden house and the feeling to learn carpentry and spend less time programming I think this is brilliant. Combining minimal design with a hacker and DIY ethos is brilliant. Kudos, bookmarked; hope I can find the time to tinker with the designs.
  • by survirtual on 4/23/25, 9:05 AM

    I do not see how to use this system. It just says what it is. The github also specifies a format but says nothing about usage, and neither do the Rust docs.

    How do I feed in a mesh or something and it outputs an algorithmically generated slat furniture? This simple example would make things usable.

  • by perilunar on 4/23/25, 10:07 AM

    Nice idea, but why didn’t they go with an existing file format instead of making their own?

    VRML would have been a good choice: human readable, many CAD programs can import and export it, and there’s a web viewer available.

  • by MitPitt on 4/23/25, 2:39 PM

    Reminded me of village kit (https://villagekit.com/ https://gridbeam.xyz/). That one didn't fly so good it seems.
  • by astrolx on 4/24/25, 7:07 PM

    This is great. Furniture from one type of wood piece. Went recently through a similar process to optimize building bird nests from one type of wood planks from the local sawmill. I think I'll give the hyperwood bench a try next week.
  • by owls-on-wires on 4/23/25, 7:47 PM

    As someone who just finished building a dresser for a bedroom, I wish I wood have found this sooner! Love the idea.
  • by yahoozoo on 4/22/25, 11:42 PM

    Where does one get the wood itself?
  • by davidkwast on 4/23/25, 1:19 AM

    Very nice