Hyperwood – Open-Source Furniture

by panicon 4/22/2025, 3:50 PMwith 12 comments

by tmpfson 4/22/2025, 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 survirtualon 4/23/2025, 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 perilunaron 4/23/2025, 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 MitPitton 4/23/2025, 2:39 PM

Reminded me of village kit (https://villagekit.com/ https://gridbeam.xyz/). That one didn't fly so good it seems.

by astrolxon 4/24/2025, 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-wireson 4/23/2025, 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 yahoozooon 4/22/2025, 11:42 PM

Where does one get the wood itself?

by davidkwaston 4/23/2025, 1:19 AM

Very nice