Introduce yourself.

[James Arthur]

If you're joining the group (or have been around a while), please feel free to click reply below to just introduce yourself, what you're interested in, your background / skills, etc.

[Ian Bennink]

Hi,

My name is Ian; I'm based in London and part of the OpenDesk team.
I'm looking forward to answering some of the questions and enquiries on this forum.

Currently I'm looking after a number of 'get it made' orders in various countries and am following up with the local partner makers to make sure they are delivering something really special to customers in their local area.

Also I'm in touch with new makers around the world to increase the number of places we can deliver OpenDesks to. Most of these are not yet on the platform as we're checking quality of materials, finishing etc. Usually we run one or more test products as well.
If you're curious about developments in your area or you have some suggestions for local makers that may make great partners, I'd really like to hear from you.

My background is in business and in mechanical engineering - the old fashioned sort; no web coding involved :)

[Alfonso Spina]

Hi everyone,

It's great sharing this user group!

This is Alfonso Spina, Italian architect just moved to London, with a good knowledge in design & construction of wooden building plus some experience in pieces of furniture collaborative-making (bed, table, cabinet, mezzanine). 

Local & affordable CNC capability is a real bomb for the furniture sector and we are really close to that (Handibot, e.g.). I really believe in the value of open source (r)evolutionary model addressing physical things. (I am also team-member of HiLite, Open Hardware research group focusing on energy, light and transmission).

Hoping to contribute to the project in the near future! (and touching the furniture at the Hub)

[James Arthur]

Hey Alfonso,

Great to hear from you -- do let us know if you're in / near the Hub and let's try and hook up :)

Btw, if you're not already involved, do also check out the WikiHouse groups: http://www.wikihouse.cc/community

Thanks,

James.

[Carlos kim]

Hi, nice to meet u guys. My name is hansun kim from seoul. While googling the open design, I found the Open desk site. I graduated M.A product design in Seoul 5 yr ago and now I work in a department of web service planning and design. Actually I've been interested on the subjects such as open design and democratizing creativity, crowdsourcing.
So i'm so excited to find your interesting projects. I hope to keep in contact and share nice ideas with u guys.

[Pedro Terra LAB]

hi,

My name is Pedro and I'm from São Paulo - Brazil.

I own a cnc shop called pedroterralab.com

My site is mostly in Portuguese, but there is a page called Open Source furniture I'm sure you will all understand.

https://pedro-terra.squarespace.com/open-source-furniture/

I truly believe that open source is the way to go and I want to help in any way I can the growth of this community.

Some friends and I construct the cnc that we use in the shop. is a mechmate measuring 3 x 2 meters, so we can cut big pieces.

I graduated from the visual arts, but my main goal was to become a skipper of a sailboat. I do not know exactly how I ended up working with cnc and digital fabrication, but anyway, I love what I do.

[G Fraser]

I'm Guy from UK. I'm working on open source blueprints for sustainable local services, because I think people in the community are better suited to doing awesome stuff than governments and big corporations.

Would be great if your project could team up with the Rekindle project in New Zealand: http://vimeo.com/57656605 :)

[Danny Squires]

Hi Guy,
I'm from the WikiHouseNZ lab which started in Christchurch and we have very close links to rekindle people.
In fact we have been assembling our latest prototype in their warehouse space over the past few days.
Definitely looking at how we can collaborate further with the great work they are doing!

Danny Squires

[Enrico Icardi]

Hi everyone,

I'm Enrico, co-founder of http://www.sharedesk.net and i live and work (as web developer) in Berlin, Germany.

Just stumbled upon opendesk and loved the idea. Well done guys!

Enrico.

[DreamReclamation]

Hello all, 

We are a team of two from Western Wisconsin that started a design house in 2012, with a purchase of a CNC taking place in early 2013. We are looking forward to meeting some other makers out there and producing some products. 

Mike and Ben

[Saliya Ekanayake]

Hi,

I am Saliya Ekanayake from Bloomington, Indiana, United States. I do woodworking as a hobby and two of the recent works I did are at

1. The wall shelf at http://esaliya.blogspot.com/2013/07/weekend-carpentry-wall-shelf.html

2. Meditation benches at http://esaliya.blogspot.com/2013/04/home-made-meditation-benches_13.html

I like to submit designs and would like to know the procedure for this.

Really glad to see something like OpenDesk!!

[Nikos Athanasopoulos]

Hi, I'm Nikos and I work as a freelance product designer,

I'm highly interested in Open Design and co-create. 

My current project is to design and build the kitchen floor of HUB Athens. 

I hope to hear from your network

Keep up the good work

http://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanasopoulos

[James Arthur]

Hi Saliya,

Great to hear from you and welcome to OpenDesk :)

I've just created a new thread here for design suggestions -- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/opendesk-community/x_Rdrr_jIxU -- so please do add any ideas there.

Or if you'd prefer to talk directly, drop us an email on in...@opendesk.cc with any links / attachments.  (We have plans to setup some more infrastructure for contributing designs but right now we're just dealing with things manually).

Thanks,

James.

[Oriol Carrasco]

Hi Guys,

My name is Oriol and I'm from Barcelona, architect and maker interested in a large variety of fields, from buildings to electronics...

A couple of months ago, four colleagues from the masters teamed up and created SMD lab, a creative-maker space in Barcelona, where we offer CAD consulting Services, Training and CNC cutting

One of our most remarkable works was to design and build our own CNC milling machine, which is in constant evolution :)

Here is SMD lab profile on fabhub  ( still work in progress)

https://www.fabhub.io/smd-lab

Where you can take a look at the construction process of our CNC

Let's try to create a big community of makers from worldwide!

Regards!

O

On Monday, July 15, 2013 1:11:53 PM UTC+2, James Arthur wrote:

[Olivier Castelli]

Bonjour, je suis Olivier Castelli

Je sus intéressé par l'habitat et l'ameublement démontable. J'ai déjà réalisé des exemplaires, mais avec les anciennes méthodes. Cette méthode libre "OpenDesk", convient parfaitement à ma démarche. Si joint mon argumentaire sur le proto déjà réalisé (mais détruit depuis)...

http://www.calameo.com/read/0011332120c862a8bf34f

Merci à vous et à bientôt

Oivier

[Tárik Hermano]

Hello,

My name is Tarik and I'm a Brazilian copywriter (architecture drop-out and design enthusiast). I live in Goiania (nearly 200km from Brasilia, the capital of Brazil).

I stumbled upon Open Desk while googling open-source design projects and loved it. I have a bit of an experience with wood crafting (only enough to be aware of how much I actualy can't do) and have wandered around furniture design while in architecture school. I always sketch some furnitures, but mostly as a doodling exercise more than anything else.

Anyway, I'm open to contribute however I can to make OpenDesk even bigger.

Hope we can figure something out.

cheers, mates.

[rael...@gmail.com]

Hi, I'm Rael from Melbourne, Australia.

 

I studied Furniture Technology at RMIT in Melbourne and have worked in the furniture industry as a designer/technologist.

 

I've been looking for this type of forum/community for several years as my passion is CNC (but it's difficult and expensive to get projects manufactured easily in Melbourne - need more local makers!).

 

Looking forward to future discussions.

[DozStudio]

Hi !

I am Dorene, an industrial designer locate in Hong Kong.
I am working on some laser cut wood piece projects as well, since I see the demand in simple,  flat pack, DIY furniture. 
I have reliable maker in China (Yes, China, people steal ideas, but these people are friends, also from HK, they respect the IP) helping me out, hopefully I could show you the work soon and share more later on.

Cheers,

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[mr...@localfacture.com]

Hello All,

A colleague and myself are opening up a shop in Boston, MA and would love to learn more about manufacturing and distributing opens desk projects.

My partner Brian is a one-time architect and artist come web developer, I am a statistician and woodworking hobbyist. We are interested in adding concepts to the OpenDesk project as we build the business, but your desks and chairs, for starters, seem like a great fit for the Boston market.

How can we learn more about getting involved?

Best,

Michael Rosa

On Monday, July 15, 2013 7:11:53 AM UTC-4, James Arthur wrote:

[Kyle Carpenter]

Hi,

Name is Kyle, co-founder of SolidSurface.com.  OpenDesk is such a fantastic idea, and I am excited to see what other products will be released in the future.  

Because solid surface products, like Corian, work like wood and can be CNC'd easily, I believe that this opens up a whole new inspirational avenue for our partners & customers to express their creativity and inner-maker .

Keep up the good work and we look forward to seeing more.

Kyle

[mari.s...@gmail.com]

Hi people!

I'm Mariana from Brazil, I've just graduated in Product Design, nice to meet everyone!

[killerk...@gmail.com]

Hello, my name is Franky, I'm from Atlanta Ga. I'm the founder of ACORA Design a company dedicated to woodworking, distinctive finishes and custom builds. I am pretty new to this sort of thing...possibly being a part of a global network of creators, but I'm excited.

[Andrej Petrovcic]

Hi there !

We are a small group of designers from Slovenia, a craftsman, architects and illustrators who enjoy designing and building individual pieces of furniture, accessories or even writing and illustrating a childrens book. Whenever is for ourselfs or a gift, maybe for sale, we make fun of it.
We own a small workshop with many tools and a 1,5x0,7m CNC machine.

[Robert_Wood-guy]

Hi all, Nice to be part of this group !

Enjoying crafting furniture for the past 12ys, near Montreal, Quebec, Canada !

I'm looking forward to expand my CNC services wiht these nice designs and looking to collaborate. Later, Robert ø_@  

On Monday, July 15, 2013 7:11:53 AM UTC-4, James Arthur wrote:

[artandcraftcnc]

On Monday, July 15, 2013 9:11:53 PM UTC+10, James Arthur wrote:

If you're joining the group (or have been around a while), please feel free to click reply below to just introduce yourself, what you're interested in, your background / skills, etc.

Hi

 

My name is Neil I am based in Melbourne Australia.

I am a cnc operator, my business does cnc routing for artist, craft enthusiast, diy handy person, home renovators & wood working enthusiasts.

[Csaba, Miklós]

Hello,

I'm Csaby, from Bucharest, Romania. I own a brand (moble shop, moble.ro) dedicated for furnitures. I would like to offer these products (ready to be assembled) to our customers. We have a lot of request for cheap furniture, however, we are currently unable to fulfill this request - due to quality issues. Who can help with manufacturing and shipping? Possible customization per order can be a standard from leads.

Thanks in advance for helping us.

On Monday, 15 July 2013 14:11:53 UTC+3, James Arthur wrote:

[j cain]

Hello everybody.  I am a Senior Industrial Designer working in the medical space but absolutely love furniture design and am pretty intrigued by the prospects presented here.   I am more than happy to evaluate design as well as upload some of my own when the time is right.

[solar...@gmail.com]

G'day,

Peter here in Brisbane, Australia.

I'm a licensed builder, carpenter by trade. I'm slowly developing sustainable prefab buildings, completed a few already from weekend cabins to a 4 bedroom house that I took 700 odd kilometres out west.

Started CAD drafting my own projects years ago and changed over to Revit a year or so ago.

Recently bought 5 new CNC routers off a chap who imported them from China, he had a spot of bad luck and had to sell them.

So I've been having fun upgrading them to Mach3 and sorting out all their electrical faults. Ready to start cutting now and hoping to sell a couple of machines.

I have plans for some curved buildings, hence the interest in CNC.

Love to make furniture and itching to try out some OpenDesk designs.

I hope to contribute to the community here and help designers get their ideas made.

[Nicolas Vivier]

Hi !

I am Nicolas Vivier, near Cherbourg France. Our small company, Icarai, is a wooden boat builder and we sell boat kits. We cnc cut ourselves plywood and we would be happy to cut OpenDesk furnitures for local clients.

Kind regards

[Jeffrey Matthias]

My name is Jeffrey Matthias and I've been dabbling with open source furniture design for about 5 years. I am an industrial designer turned software engineer, working for a company called SendGrid. I run a small company, furnlab, on the side. 

The two designs that I've had out for a long time can be found here: http://www.jeffreymatthias.com/downloadable-design/ If ip addresses from my downloads are to be believed, my work is popular in Russia. :)

I spent a large percentage of my time in design school focusing on designing for CNC technology. I also worked for a Housefish, another CNC based furniture company. I got worn out trying to bring open source to furniture and ended up working in software, where the culture is already strong. When you have a family to support, one can only be an evangelist until the money runs out. 

Here is the current version of my oldest design. It originally came about in 2001... WAY before I knew what a CNC machine was.

[B.K. Dalton]

Hello everyone-

My name is B.K. Dalton.  I'm a local woodworker located in Fredericksburg, VA (USA) ( sawdustbydesign.com) .  I came across the OpenDesk website by chance....glad I did!  Amazing CNC design's.  

I do custom CNC work as well, but not to the high degree that everyone in this group does...However, it has inspired me!!

[Scott Bennett]

My friend Jeffrey sent me the Open Desk link a few days ago. I have a furniture company in Denver, CO, USA (http://www.housefish.com), with a 5x10 router- I'm big on pushing CNC past the simple through profile cuts that make it obvious how the finished piece was made. My background is automotive engineering (racing), so I've been involved in relative advanced manufacturing techniques for quite a while. Interested to see where this project goes.

[Vivek Gani]

Howdy Ya'll,

Found out about opendesk after reading about it in the HN newsletter. I currently develop touch plugins for graphic designers (thimbleup.com) and come from a background in hardware/software/robotics. Been curious for years about how to design a desk similar to the Lean, but want to figure out a way to make it adjustable in height (stand/sit) while trying to adhere to the flatpack / CNC-able philosophy of opendesk.

The Lean DESK looks appealing for apartment-dwellers trying to convert their dining area into a partial office -- one-side for dining, one side for working.

-Vivek

[CutLab CPH]

Hi Everybody

We are CutLab CPH, a copenhagen based design team with in-house CNC workshop. We are new to this forum and are looking forward to get to know people in the same business as us around the world. We got introduced to opendesk by a fellow designer and are interested in becoming local maker in denmark. 

Our studio is a mix of engineers, living designers and architects with a wide variety of competencies and experience level within different elements of the design industry. We hope to contribute to the  

[CutLab CPH]

Hi Everybody

We are CutLab CPH, a copenhagen based design team with in-house CNC workshop. We are new to this forum and are looking forward to get to know people in the same business as us around the world. We got introduced to opendesk by a fellow designer and are interested in becoming local maker in denmark. 

Our studio is a mix of engineers, living designers and architects with a wide variety of competencies and experience level within different elements of the design industry. We hope to contribute to the forum with our knowhow and become part of the global network of custom makers :)

[Adam Hill]

Hello!

Just a casual maker here!  Your site struck a chord with me, as I love this style of making and I've even tried my hand at it.  I think my flat pack, no screws/other hardware desk is great and I'd love to hear feedback on it!

Here is the finished product.  Left arrow will show various other picture, including the 3D design and in-progress shots.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamthemeche/6090394138/in/pool-lifehacker-workspace-showandtell/

Currently, I have the file on Google Sketchup, and I'm working to add all the interlocking notches on the design file so it can be converted as need be to make it V-carve compatible.

What do y'all think?

On Monday, July 15, 2013 7:11:53 AM UTC-4, James Arthur wrote:

[zthoma...@gmail.com]

Hello,

My name is Zach Thomas. I am an industrial designer in North Carolina.

I do most of my creative projects within a design collaborative called Relative Design. We design and sell original products but also provide 3d printing and CNC routing services to our local community.

I think this OpenDesk is a brilliant idea. As the DIY/Maker movement continues to grow, it seems like an excellent way to curate and promote excellent designs. The growing network of CNC factories that support this idea is equally as impressive. We hope to become a part of that network.

Like many makers, we have built several 3d printers and have just recently built our own 4' x 8' CNC Router. We are using these tools to develop a line of flat pack office furniture that we think is appropriate for this market. We would love to offer our CNC services to help distribute OpenDesk items in our area and hope to submit a few original designs as well.

fabhub profile:
https://www.fabhub.io/relative-design

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
Zach

[Pierre Grand]

My name is Pierre GRAND, architect.

I have a CNC company in Bordeaux, France : La menuiserie Digitale. I would like to propose Open Desk cutting service for local people. We have a PRS alpha 96/48 Shopbot and a big forest behind us where we could find great plywood : Lande forest.

I have created a furniture range in 2008 for the n° 1 NY Make Faire for the Shopbot company : Ekkoflex range.

I would like to propose this furniture in the Open desk directory.

Bye,

Pierre.

PS : Thank you to add me on the Fabber map (i 'm always registered as Fabhub project). Thanks.

[Robert Leeman]

Hi,

I am a furniture and fine product designer based in France on the border with Geneva Switzerland. I have been designing bespoke furniture and fitted units for a wide range of private clients in the area. However, I am developing further to create my own product lines; furniture, tableware and lighting.

I have been using a network of local craftspeople to realize my furniture, and as a designer maker I make certain pieces and prototypes myself. Recently I have been using a Greek company to fabricate the majority of my furniture, the quality is very good and they are competitively priced. They have a wide range of large scale CNC equipment and it could be possible that they become a trusted manufacturer. 

I am interested in creating designs for OpenDesk and sourcing for particular things to be made for me, naturally using the OpenDesk products as well where appropriate. I would be very interested in submitting designs as soon as you are ready to receive them.

I am currently developing an online shop and have aspirations to sell products from various sources through a few interior design stores that are interested in promoting Ralpine Design and its services/products.

If you would like to know a little more about me and Ralpine Design please use the following links:

mobile: 0041 762654668  

skype: robert.leeman

email: ralpin...@gmail.com

blog:  www.ralpinedesign.com/apps/blog   

portfolio: www.behance.net/ralpinedesign

website: www.ralpinedesign.com

With kind regards,

Rob Leeman 

[Robert_Wood-guy]

Bonjour Pierre !

We have "met" before.....on the MechMate forum !

Welcome to this community.... <:-)

A bientôt, Robert

[Sergio]

Ciao,
My name is Sergio, I'am a maker, I built my big CNC machine (Mechmate) ((ciao Pedro:-))
I am based in Rome Italy and can offer CNC service and sanything around woodworking.
Some example of work already done ....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90124166@N07/with/8189509797/
and soon there will be a professional internet site.

[West Satsop Boatworks Llc]

Thank you for creating this great venue.

West Satsop Boatworks is a small manufacturing company linked to fabhub specializing in creating kits of plywood boats for independent boat builders. We have a 4x8 Mechmate running LinuxCNC and are in the process of building another to keep up with demand.

We look forward to working with all of you!

- Jeff

[Sergio]

Nice to see you here Jeff ! a lot of Mechmater !

[Daniel Carpenter]

Hello, 

I'm a carpenter/ joiner, for the last 3 years, i have been working within the trade to do everything for 1st and 2nd fix to bespoke joinery. 

This is somewhat of a passion of mine. i am currently doing a BA in Design, looking to bring my skills together to produce and design furniture. 

I find this community and concept to be amazing, and would love to be part of it.

Hope to hear more about this community, and really join one of the maker teams. 

if anyone has any information about joining the maker teams, please don't hesitate to email me on 

dtm...@hotmail.com 

Carpentry

Www.danielrockman.tumblr.com/carpentry

Photography

www.danielrockman.tumblr.com

[Kyle Wong]

Hello world!

This is Kyle from Hong Kong, works in the advertising and window film industry for a while, we just bought a ESKO Kongsberg XN cutting table with a 3Kw milling head and so excited to come across this page and group.
I study design in University and really like the idea of sharing design as I believe every design should be affordable by people.

I enjoy watching how things being cut on my machine and very keen on large format printing.

I'm new to CNC but have been keep an eye on the technology for a while. We just cut a Cafe table on my machine and it works fine. But I don't know what's the small holes for on the plan, anyone have a clue? I have been talking with lan for a few days but I know he's probably too busy for the orders around the world.

I hope I can give some design when I fully understand how my machine behave, I still have no idea how can my machine make bevel edge. Anyway, probably too long for introduction, nice to meet you all, guys!

Cheers,
Kyle




James Arthur於 2013年7月15日星期一UTC+8下午7時11分53秒寫道：

[Gregory lecomte]

Hi, i am Grégory from France.

I am a design engineer in the mechanical.

Design and draws its my job and i wish to share my works with you in the future. But the patience is a vertue.(really i am a newbie and i must work to improve my skill) .

I am a pro-wood, for my home all my furnitures must be a wooden and for me its a luck to works with you for share and learn.


thanks everybody and  " la bise ".


(Yeah my english is very bad...)

[Kevin Phaup]

Hi,

My name is Kevin Phaup; I am an Industrial Design MFA student at Notre Dame. Currently I am researching and making trying to establish new methods of utilizing the CNC to design furniture that can, 1. be open source, 2. customizable by consumer, 3. delivered in the open source local manufacture model that you are discussing, and 4.flat pack and ship for LOCAL deliver. So excited to stumble on this site/group! Looking forward to making some contacts and hopefully getting involved with you guys. Please reach out to me if there is ever an opportunity to collaborate.

Thanks,

Kevin

On Monday, July 15, 2013 7:11:53 AM UTC-4, James Arthur wrote:

[Ariel Harlap]

Hi, I'm Ariel in Montreal, Canada, and I'm passionate about the social economy and making beautiful things. I am starting a CNC shop and excited to become a local OpenDesk distributor.

[Harsha Vardhan Durugadda]

Hi,
Namaste,

 I am Harsha Vardhan, based in Hyderabad , India. I am a sculptor.
I own a CNC machine and am interested in the digital revolution of manufacturing and would love to be part of the OpenDesk community. 

[Kristaps Shveisbergs]

Hi 

Name  - Kristaps Sveisbergs

job - Searching 

education - VIA university collage, Horsens, DK

Location - Riga, Latvia

Web - www.aim-a.eu

Future -  Designing as well Market opportunities in Latvian. 

[Chris Fandz]

Hello all,

My name is Chris Fandz and I design and make a variety of items. My main focus currently revolves around docking stations and desk organizers. I only design items that can be made on a CNC. I really like the idea of open desk and would love to contribute ideas and gain inspiration from the community.  

My best,
Chris

[D Saldicco]

Hello,

Don Saldicco , Carmel High School, NY

High School Engineering elective courses

Low end 3D printing, small CNC, wood shop, metal shop/automotive, computer science lab.

Working with local High end Fab shop, student Dad to cut the Eddie stool.

Trying to get school district to use Open Desk designs in the classroom!

an effort to create an example of self resiliency, by making own furniture.

As a STEAM (ScienceTechnologyEngineeringArtsMath) initiative to bring full size CNC to the curriculum.

Hoping to post pictures and get a red pin for the high school!

My undergraduate work at New York State College at Purchase was focused on furniture making so I highly respect the no fastener joinery, I want my high school testers to abuse one.

[nick godfrey]

Hello everyone,

My name is Nicholas Godfrey and I am a digital fabricator in the US. I hold a degree in history; grew up around the building trades, and have an affinity for all things mechanical.  Design is not  my strongest asset, so the Opendesk platform is very appealing to me. I have truly enjoyed the whole experience thus far and look to help facilitate the exposure and prosperity in any way that I can.

Nicholas

[pie...@yahoo.fr]

Hello,
I'm a french joiner who learned design in Germany. Open design have been a subject for me for almost 6 years. And i'm sure craft people in the future need to be connected and to work together and to share production tools.  Your idea with opendesk is in my opinion one of the most powerful for makers and their clients!

[Jeremy Hayden]

Hello to Everyone,

I am Jeremy, we are Renatus!

a manufacturing company based in Bideford, Devon in SW UK

We have just found out about OpenDesk, love the idea, and hope to get involved

I look forward to meeting you all, virtually or otherwise.

Jeremy

On Monday, July 15, 2013 12:11:53 PM UTC+1, James Arthur wrote:

[Matthew Sugiarto]

Hi, my name is Matthew Sugiarto, based on Surabaya, Indonesia. I'm part of a small wood workshop and fabrication team. Currently we are making accessories for wedding and birthday party, furnitures occasionally. Opendesk creates a great opportunity for us to learn about furnitures making even more.

[erco Laii]

Hi, I'm erco. I was Digital Fabrication Designer in FabCafe Taipei. Now, I get the VISA and I can stay in UK for 2 years. 

Please contact me if you're interested in my works. Here is my Portfolio.

James Arthur於 2013年7月15日星期一UTC+8下午7時11分53秒寫道：

[erco Laii]

Hi, I'm erco and I major in product design. I was Digital Fabrication Designer in FabCafe Taipei.

Now, I get the VISA and I can stay in UK for 2 years.

Please contact me if you're interested in my works.

Here is my portfolio  

[Joshua Dean]

Hi, My name is Joshua Dean a design student at Kingston University, I am a maker and am looking to join the open source community once i have finished my degree. At the moment I am currently conducting a research project on the open source community as a Dissertation for my final year. 

I would love to hear about developments within the Open source manufacturing and design communities. I am looking to interview, record and document movements and happening within the community.

If there are projects going on that would need a photographer i am willing to put my services on the table free of charge.

Best to all of you, 

Joshua Dean

[Rafael Fernández]

Hello! I´ve just seen a blog post about OpenDesk, and here I am!. I´m a product designer from Spain and I would love to collaborate in such a interesting project! Please take a look at www.oitenta.com where you will find some examples of what I do... Congratulations for the project! have a nice day all!

[Dean Hewson]

Awesome portfolio. Really dig the REchairs - your other stuff is prettier but I love the conspicuous repair aspect of those chairs.

[Dean Hewson]

My name is Dean Hewson, I'm a writer and web designer, moving into Industrial Design. I'm helping set up the Footscray Maker Lab, and am pushing forward our first major group project at http://map.footscraymakerlab.com. Our group is a bit different to most maker labs, as a lot of the people interested fall outside the 'traditional' maker/hacker demographic of 18-24 geek; we've attracted trained architects, designers and futurists in the largest numbers so far.

We're hoping to be able to CNC these open designs for the public at some point - for now we're looking for a local mill that will make a couple of desks for us.

Love this project, looking forward to seeing how it grows, and as I learn more Industrial Design, contributing to it.

[Jose Pacheco]

Hi my name is Jose Pacheco, I am an spanish currently working at Barcelona as a mechanical engineer, I have designed a few lamps which I shared under CC license, you can see them here: 

 

http://www.thingiverse.com/pachek/designs / the most recent lamp I have designed is this  

I would like to give my designs to this community although I noticed currently you are more focused on wood furniture. I have some on-mind-projects on that direction too.

In any case, Im very interested on learning from this community. 

[Hall Design]

Hello,
We are a young Parisian design studio and we have already had the opportunity to work wood panels.
The Open Desk concept is very much appreciated and we would make our contribution. We currently three free publishing projects. Tell me what you thought.
Cheers,
Team Hall Design

http://www.hall-design.fr/project-atela.html
http://www.hall-design.fr/project-arbre2.html
http://www.hall-design.fr/project-mea.html

[Olaman Ayeni]

My name is Ola Ayeni, I am run a startup and looking to start a coworking space for designers, hackers and entrepreneur.

[Olaman Ayeni]

Hi Ben and Mike,

I am in Missouri,

I like to put together some of these desk and meeting chairs.

Can you help? cost etc.

Ola
eateri...@gmail.com

On Sunday, August 18, 2013 1:13:06 PM UTC-5, DreamReclamation wrote:

Hello all, 

We are a team of two from Western Wisconsin that started a design house in 2012, with a purchase of a CNC taking place in early 2013. We are looking forward to meeting some other makers out there and producing some products. 

Mike and Ben

[Olaman Ayeni]

Scott,

I like to build this http://housefish.com/product/lock-counter-stool/ for my use in my office. Would you be kind to send me the configuration to eateri...@gmail.com

On Thursday, August 29, 2013 9:09:01 AM UTC-5, Scott Bennett wrote:

My friend Jeffrey sent me the Open Desk link a few days ago. I have a furniture company in Denver, CO, USA (http://www.housefish.com), with a 5x10 router- I'm big on pushing CNC past the simple through profile cuts that make it obvious how the finished piece was made. My background is automotive engineering (racing), so I've been involved in relative advanced manufacturing techniques for quite a while. Interested to see where this project goes.

[Gary Monck]

Hi everyone,

Looking forward to sharing with this user group!

I am Gary Monck an Australian architect based in Canberra Australia, with a knowledge in design & construction, mechanical engineering and quite a bit of experience in product design. 

I can provide advice and CNC capability i have a Mechmate based router (1800x  2400mm capacity which will be expanded to allow 4200mm long capacity in the future to allow for architectural pieces) which i constructed myself and also a rostock 3d printer that i constructed on my router and will be featured on my blog at www.ouroborosdesign.com and hope to be able to provide drawing layout files for this soon.

I really believe in the maker community and open source and will be contributing where i can.

[Gary Monck]

Hi everyone,

This is Gary Monck an Architect in Canberra Australia, I have a background in Commercial and residential Architecture and also Mechanical engineering and exhibition and product design. 

I have CNC router capability (2400mm x 1800mm) which is achieved using my Mechmate based router constructed in house, I also have a Rostock based 3d printer also constructed in house and will be build bloged on my website www.ouroborosdesign.com. I will hopfully have plans available for download soon.

Look forward to contribute to this group/project in the future, link to my fabhub is https://www.fabhub.io/ouroboros-design‏.

Regards

Gary

[Laurier Heymans]

Hey,

My name is laurier. I stumbled here after seeing a maker at a belgian expo. I was intrigued and thought i would look and see whats it all about.

i'm a mechanical designer by day and tinkerer by night:). I love design and making things myself so i am always teaching myself new things. For the moment i am designing a screen riser for my office and was wondering if this would interest you guys and how this works.

The screen riser is made of layers of plywood and is made for a two screen desk but could be changed to single screen to. It has a paper organiser,smartphone holder and crap holders:)

The design could even dynamically be made based on the width of the screens and the distance you sit from them. Because i sit straight in from of one screen and the 2nd is at an angle.

So i will take a look around and see if people are interested in a design like this or something else;)

[Gary Monck]

Free plans are now available for 3d printer on my website listed above.

[fablab catania]

Hello to all

We are a group of people of good will (makers and electronic engineers and other fans of DIY) operating in the city of Catania (Sicily).

Happy to be here with you and congratulations for the idea!

[fablab catania]

Il giorno lunedì 15 luglio 2013 13:11:53 UTC+2, James Arthur ha scritto:

If you're joining the group (or have been around a while), please feel free to click reply below to just introduce yourself, what you're interested in, your background / skills, etc.

[ma...@howaiman.com]

Hi everyone,

Im a portrait photographer by trade originally from London and currently based in Hong Kong. I am always interesting venturing into new exciting projects including and visual arts design. 

I love the idea of OpenDesk and I hope to trying out some of the design and in building them. My knowledge in furniture is very limited (close to 0%) but I have a had long history of design and advertising along with my photography, along with many creative people I enjoy a good design. I downloaded a few designs I really like to starting building for my home and office in Hong Kong, one problem I am finding is that I am unable to find a professional maker to help me create the cut the template for me to start building. Being close to China and Hong Kong is well known for its manufacturing I am fairly sure there must be a few professional makers that can help me.

Hopefully this forum can share some tips but also a list of makers I can approach to help me in Hong Kong.

Nice to meet you all and lets see where this takes us.

r\Regards.

Ho Wai Man

[kaushalia khanna]

Hi, I'm  Kaushalia Khanna,  my friends and co workers  call me Koshi for short .  I am  french/ indian  architect , designer, a creative type currently based in Athens but relocating to London in the UK in a couple of months. I am very  interested in creating prototypes for some of my furniture design .  

The discovery of Opendesk yesterday as seen on the Guardian  is fantastic since no such thing exists in Greece for the moment. 

Also I am very excited to  be part of a community of like minded creative people , makers , to share and contribute. 

So very happy to be on board and wishing you all happy holidays!!

Best Koshi 

[Koshi]

Hello everyone, my name is Kaushalia Khanna but it's Koshi for short! 

I was absolutely thrilled to discover  Opendesk in the Guardian yesterday.

I am half french half Indian architect,  designer  with a passion for a lot more. Currently based in Athens I will be relocating to London in a couple of months. I have  to make prototypes of some of my furniture design and really hope that  I have landed in the right place as no such thing as Opendesk exist in Greece right now!

Also am very excited to be part of a community of creative like minded people and hoping to share and contribute ....

Wishing you all happy holidays !! 

Koshi 

[Andy Pearson]

I am a designer/director with a love of making things. However, my skill level is quite low. I'd like to collaborate with other makers who can help me turn my drawings into reality and also to find a local workshop I can use to make things. In terms of acquiring new design skills can anyone recommend a drawing app that is suitable for beginners and doesn't have too steep a learning curve?

[Scott Bryson]

My name is Scott Bryson and I'm a jack of all trades so I've done some product designs in surfboards, truck canopies and furniture. The previous decade I worked with a friend as the back office for her architecture & design, so I got fairly immersed in that field. I currently run a related Facebook page on architecture: Architecture International Style

I'm wondering where the profit incentive is for designers if plans are given away, but on the other hand there must be something going on here, I like what I see.

Below are photographs of my "Danger Bed" which got that name as I didn't round off the sharp corners, also it assembles through gravity to hold it together, there could be various ways to secure it better but it is very stable as long as a heavy person doesn't trampoline on the edge. It also allows for some under bed storage, and I envision various additions such as drawers, doors or cubbyholes. It does flat-pack so has the potential to manufacture and distribute.

Essentially it is 5' X 6' and the bottom rails about 1' to make the most of 4' X 8' plywood. It can be made from two sheets of plywood if the short ends are joined with leftover scrap, alternately in mass production the end pieces could be one-piece. I did use self tapping screws to join those end pieces and fasten the 4 leftover triangles which keep the top pieces aligned in the frame. Essentially the cat's out of the bag now and one could easily draft this up, I will get around to it eventually or perhaps a maker would like to go in on some prototypes, I would at least like to get a copyright credit on end results, perhaps some licensing scheme later but I will have to see how you work it here, I'm not too worried. Probably a good idea to round those corners a little!

Danger Bed Photos

There is currently a vogue for hollow wooden surfboards made much in the style of sailboats or model airplanes, I would be interested in exploring those possibilities eventually.

Cheers,

Scott Bryson
Email

[Enrique Hernandez]

Hi Arthur and Ian,

My name is Enrique and based in Mexico City, I contacted Ian Bennink a couple of months ago and I am glad to say that thanks to his information and advise we are on our way with my CNC Startup and soon to receive our 6 x 4 Router...,

Will be in touch soon... Cheers and a great 2014

[James Arthur]

Hi Enrique,

Great to hear - hope it goes well for you!

James.

[Paulo Victor Santos]

Hi everybody,

My name is Paulo and I'm an Industrial Designer here in Brazil.

Last year I created my own brand to develop downloadable products.

www.lesmo.co

Since then I have created 5 products that already are available for download, 3 of which are in beta stage and the other 2 are final products (false, design never ends).

I'm here to engage more with the scenario, to connect with new people and grow my work and participation.

Hope that you all like my designs and I'm ready to hear feedbacks.

download the projects at lesmo.co/download

development process of each project:

kross chair 

kross lamp

Kross side table (beta)

kross stool (beta)

Arakno Chair (beta)

[James Arthur]

Hi Paulo,

Great to hear from you.  Looks like we share a lot of thinking.  

I'd imagine that Nick, our lead designer, will be in touch!

James.

[Paulo Victor Santos]

I'm here if you guys need me!

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[Brad Jensen]

I am Brad Jensen with WikiHouseDET and am busy design a WikiSketchBed (with influences from WikiHouse and SketchChair).  Will be laser cutting the first 1/6 model this week.  Interested in releasing it once I am convinced it isn't rubbish.  

[James Arthur]

Hi Brad,

Great to hear from you -- WikiSketchBed sounds very cool!  Are you thinking to parameterise so it can be extruded to different sizes?

As and when you're ready, either ping ni...@opendesk.cc with the the design and / or post on to the Studio: https://www.opendesk.cc/open/studio

Thanks,

James.

[Ying Jie Hua]

Hi, my name is Ying Jie Hua, currently an undergraduate at UBC in Vancouver. I am really interested in your furniture designing concept. My creativity is unparalleled and most importantly I crave for innovation, I crave to push out unseen designs. I have done a few projects in the past and always have managed to accomplish them with tools restrictions. Laser cutting simply allows more versatility and freedom, which opens up a whole new range of possible designs. I would like to know how to get started, what 3D CAD tool to use and what design you are exactly looking for.

[Brad Jensen]

James,

Currently the goal is to:

1) Laser cut a 1/6 size model

2) Build a full bed (King Sized) for my personal use and as proof of concept.

3) Design a series of beds for standard sizes. 

I would love to make parameterized beds, but that is currently beyond my skill set. Ideally, there should be the possibility to adjust the length and width of the bed for different sized mattresses as well as to adjust the height of the legs and for the height of the mattress as well as for differing thicknesses of wood.  

Can you direct me to where I might be able to learn how to do that?  I currently work in SketchUp (love the new VCarve plugin!) but also have access to the AutoDesk suite. 

[James Arthur]

Re: parameterisation, check out http://mattermachine.com/

James.

[Brad Jensen]

Does Mattermachine allow for importing files?  I took a look at it, but it seems that I would have to recreate my design if I wanted to go that way.  

[Brad Jensen]

Ok, I found it.  I don't see how you can parameterize something that you have imported, though.

[James Arthur]

/me nods -- afaik to parameterise you'd need to re-build as a logic graph.  You could ping them with questions on https://twitter.com/mattermachine

[Alex Whitcroft]

Hi,

I'm Alex.

I'm an architectural designer - now based in London, via other places - and also do furniture, graphics and branding, photography, etc. I sit on the Living Building Challenge UK committee. I'm a certified Passivhaus designer. I'm working on a collaborative economy project around decentralised data and B2B sharing.  Blah blah blah blah. :)

Very interested in open and distributed systems, community and governance, and sustainability.

Thought I'd join on here to play with sharing some of my previous designs and maybe get more involved if there is space for that.  Let me know.

[James Arthur]

Hi Alex,

Great to hear from you.  Welcome to the community!

Do post any designs / ideas up to the studio.  Plus any feedback / any other areas you'd like to get involved in just shout...

James.

[Audrius Balnaitis]

Hello, my name is Audrius Balnaitis, Architectural Technician by education, CNC Programmer, CNC Operator, 3D Artist by trade. I am working with a group of young and creative colleagues. Our area of expertise is Design work, 3D services, CNC milling. We are based in Kaunas, Lithuania.

My personal portfolio here.

[David Marques]

Hello,

My name is David Marques and I am a product designer from Porto, Portugal. I'm doing some research about direct digital manufacturing and I'm glad to find and study your approach to open source design. Spreading the word, thanks for your project!

I have a small database of local manufacturing units, if anybody needs some contacts for northen portugal manufacturing, just poke.

All the best,

cheers,

David

[James Arthur]

Hi David,

Great to 'meet' you and hope OpenDesk is a useful research subject.  We would be interested in any leads on good professional CNC makers in Portugal, especially if they're not already on FabHub / in the OpenDesk network.

Thanks,

James.

[Roelof de Haan]

My name is Roelof de Haan. I am a student Industrial product design at windesheim Zwolle. I am doing an internship at Opmaat in Groningen, the Netherlands. My project is to make the concept of downloadable design more known in Groningen and therefor the Netherlands.

I'm interested in ways to improve the world and environment. I also want to learn more about this way of product distribution.

Op maandag 15 juli 2013 13:11:53 UTC+2 schreef James Arthur:

[jean-luc funck]

Hi,

I am Jean Luc, living today in Wiesbaden, Germany,

I am really delighted by your concept, I will look @ it more deeply
35 years ago I draw some chairs,
and I hope I will redesign them into your concept,

Thanks for that possibility,

[ymongo]

Bonjour,

I'm Yves, I'm looking to design/build/share stuff from opendesk for my home! I'm living in Paris, currently looking for an activity in product design engineering. Some of the things I've done: http://yves.mongo.free.fr . I'm looking forward to making my first stool; I really need something to seat on, I have some spare pieces of plywood, I want do it myself!