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Posted by greenlightning 20 hours ago

Hacking IKEA Furniture(greenlightning.eu)
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Prydown 8 hours ago|
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messia 10 hours ago||
congrats you built something ugly
eezing 11 hours ago||
IKEA is trash. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
cptskippy 14 hours ago||
What is the device at the end that looks like a laser engraver sans laser module?
atoav 15 hours ago||
Ahh I just created a blog post about my Ikea Helmer modification: https://atoav.com/2026/08/30/ikea-helmer-mod/

Turning the thing into something a little bit more mobile.

iLoveOncall 18 hours ago||
I have this whole website dedicated to it bookmarked since a long time: https://ikeahackers.net/
greatgib 18 hours ago||
The low cost makes it perfect for diy as for an amateur you know that you have the safety to be able to easily buy a new unit if you screw up.

Looking into ideas, I was a little bit disappointed to not find community website of people sharing ideas, experiences and results around such hacking.

teddyh 18 hours ago||
There’s <https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack>
aBioGuy 18 hours ago||
https://ikeahackers.net/
a3w 18 hours ago||
In 2014, IKEA made headlines when its legal team sent a cease-and-desist letter to Jules Yap, the founder of IKEA Hackers, demanding that she hand over the domain name. Good to see the site still online, after the PR department took note that legal teams were not-only filing useful claims.

Ever since then, I avoid sharing pictures of IKEA furniture. Like Mattel, suing barbie blogs of children. If I did not design it, I won't share a picture of it. Even building architects will sometimes sue if you photograph the house.

Ylpertnodi 18 hours ago||
> Even building architects will sometimes sue if you photograph the house.

? In the US there's the 1a - you can photograph anything you can see (from a public place). In the there's the assumption you can photograph anything without a 'do not photo, military dogs' etc. Never heard of a non-publishable building. Even gchq can be photo's.

callahad 17 hours ago|||
Check the "Freedom of Panorama" article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama - lots of restrictions around the world.
kube-system 17 hours ago||||
> In the US there's the 1a - you can photograph anything you can see (from a public place).

Just because you can photograph it does not mean you can necessarily publish it. IP rights are a recognized exception to the 1a

prmoustache 14 hours ago|||
Taking photos and publishing photos are 2 different things. The first one doesn't involve copyright for a start.
uncivilized 14 hours ago||
In typical HN fashion, the blog post is a run of the mill “hack” and instead of commenting on the article, a Hacker News instead word vomits their favorite IKEA furniture.
imnotr0b0t 6 hours ago|
Lol, that's true. It's even funny.
gpugreg 17 hours ago||
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