Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?
101 points by reacharavindh | 96 comments
Ask HN thread where a hobbyist woodworker asks for AI/LLM-assisted CAD tools to speed up designing wood projects, with replies suggesting tools like ShopSpec.
#woodworking on Hacker News
9 stories tagged woodworking, newest first.
Wood Tape (2004)(gamesbyemail.com)
189 points by NaOH | 29 comments
A father's personal story from 2004 about his four-year-old son asking for 'wood tape' and drawing plans for a table to build together.
Mallet Head Angle(timberframe-tools.com)
57 points by frogulis | 20 comments
A 2011 Timber Frame Tools blog post explaining what angle to put on the head of a joiner's mallet, citing old timber framing books.
My Recent Woodworking Projects(notoriousbfg.com)
37 points by trwhite | 18 comments
Personal blog post by Tim White describing his return to woodworking, starting with building a dog gate, after a bad school experience.
A nicer voltmeter clock(lcamtuf.substack.com)
345 points by surprisetalk | 45 comments
lcamtuf's Substack post describing building an improved voltmeter clock, an update to a 2019 project, with emphasis on its wooden enclosure.
Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display(benholmen.com)
1056 points by benholmen | 135 comments
Blog post by Ben Holmen describing his six-year project building Kilopixel, a 1000-pixel wooden mechanical display that anyone online can draw on.
I made a chair(milofultz.com)
335 points by surprisetalk | 133 comments
A personal blog post describing building a simple chair from a single 8-foot 2x12 board using basic cuts, based on an Instructable.
Carpentopod: A Walking Table Project(decarpentier.nl)
364 points by steveridout | 42 comments
Blog post by Giliam de Carpentier describing the Carpentopod, a wireless walking wooden coffee table built from software-optimized leg mechanisms.
Old vs. new growth trees and the wood products they make(hullworks.com)
325 points by Timothee | 246 comments
A Hullworks page explaining how old-growth wood differs from new-growth wood and why historic windows made from it outlast modern ones.