[HN Gopher] Underware 2.0 - Open Source Infinite Cable Management
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       Underware 2.0 - Open Source Infinite Cable Management
        
       Author : reimertz
       Score  : 130 points
       Date   : 2025-03-17 09:29 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (makerworld.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (makerworld.com)
        
       | reimertz wrote:
       | I've been looking for something like this for quite some time so
       | really happy to see an open-sourced solution with a lot of happy
       | users.
       | 
       | Will report back how the 3D-printing goes.
        
       | KaiserPro wrote:
       | Oooo nice, gridfinity but for cables
        
         | haarts wrote:
         | Holy cow, that guy is intense! Also: cool stuff! I know what I
         | have my neighbor print for me.
        
       | jmclnx wrote:
       | There was a software company named Underware in the DOS Days that
       | made a great editor. They were bought by Borland and then it
       | disappeared.
       | 
       | I do not want to deal with a Captcha so I do not know what the
       | article is about. But the 2 posts here seems to be happy.
        
       | imperialdrive wrote:
       | Holy smokes that's a tough to view site for mobile folks.
        
       | xorcist wrote:
       | The title of the page is _Underpants 2.0_ , but the renderings
       | are nothing like what the title promises.
       | 
       | I guess there is some automatic translation going on. I've said
       | it a thousand times but I can say it again:
       | 
       | There are very few universal truths in life but here's one: Do
       | not use uncalled for automatic translations. Ever. Certainly no
       | type of translation without prooreading.
       | 
       | It is deeply disrespectful of your users. Should they want to
       | read the page in another language than it was published in, there
       | is a perfectly functional button in their web browser.
       | 
       | Your users get by on the rest of the web, and they can surely
       | manage your page. Unless they have to hunt for the existence of
       | your home cooked "language" setting, which may or may not even
       | exist, without which they have to guess which words translate to
       | underpants. It may be fun the first time, but believe me, it gets
       | boring quickly. Any web shop that presents me with a butchered
       | version of my locale gets closed immediately without giving it
       | any further attention.
        
         | cassianoleal wrote:
         | The title is Underware, not Underpants. Katie is Welsh, so I
         | don't see why there would be any automatic translations. I also
         | fail to see how any of this might be disrespectful to their
         | users. Care to elaborate?
        
           | viccis wrote:
           | This was almost certainly done by Makeworld, not Katie, which
           | makes the top comment even more pointless and needlessly
           | vitriolic. Katie might read these comments, but Makerworld's
           | UI people are not likely to take orders from an irate
           | Hackernews user's screed.
        
         | LegionMammal978 wrote:
         | Are we looking at the same page? 'Underware', the name of the
         | product, seems like a simple pun: it's hard _ware_ that goes
         | _under_ your desk (or wherever else) to simplify cable
         | management. The descriptions are perfectly clear, if a bit
         | heavy on the marketing-speak.
        
           | slightwinder wrote:
           | I also see it translated into my local language, and indeed
           | the title was localized into the equivalent of underpants.
           | Maybe OP was retranslating it back to English?
           | 
           | Strange enough, the description has a hint about the
           | translation, and I even can turn it off to get the English
           | original, but this is not working on the Headline or the
           | website itself.
        
           | xorcist wrote:
           | Of course we aren't. That's the whole problem. We have
           | different locales. That results in a header somewhere with
           | the languages I understand in order of fluency (which
           | includes English, mind you), as per the specification. And
           | the author of that web page decided to turn on an automatic
           | translation tool to present its output instead of the
           | original web page.
           | 
           | That tool is particularly bad as it somehow decides that
           | underware is similar enough to underwear that it should map
           | the word to the word for underpants in my language. The rest
           | of the page is a little better, but not by much. But the
           | problem here isn't the quality of tool itself which results
           | in particularly amusing choice of words but by the use of the
           | tool itself.
           | 
           | Don't do that. If the end user wants to read your page in a
           | different language, they are perfectly capable of clicking
           | that button in their web browser and deal with the outcome
           | themselves.
           | 
           | Just don't. I will not hunt down the language selection
           | button on your badly translated web site and I will not
           | change my web browser settings for your site alone. I will
           | simply choose not to visit your web site, and I suspect many
           | others will do the same.
        
           | maeln wrote:
           | If I open the page, I see "Sous-vetements 2.0", the
           | translation for underwear in French. Sadly, this does not
           | look like 3d printable lingerie.
        
         | KaiserPro wrote:
         | Hands on Kate, has an actual real sense of humour, so you know,
         | I strongly suspect its Kate's deliberate choice.
        
         | jstummbillig wrote:
         | Somebody is trying to be more inclusive (because what else
         | would any attempt at translating content be?). It's okay to
         | have an opinion about, well, anything, but, what I think is
         | "deeply disrespectful" is completely ignoring good intentions
         | and pretending to be able to speak for a group of people in an
         | overly forceful and authoritative manner.
        
           | xorcist wrote:
           | > Somebody is trying to be more inclusive
           | 
           | Not likely. No one ever felt included by an automatic
           | translation. It is impersonal and clearly comes off as such.
           | 
           | Stastical translation tools are tremendous and helps me
           | regularly to understand the gist of texts in other languages,
           | but I understand that it is at best an approximation and I am
           | prepared that the details may be somewhat off.
           | 
           | Being presented a butchered text where key words must be
           | guessed what they were translated from is deeply
           | disrespectful of other language speakers, yes. It really is.
           | Why else serve them a second-rate quality web page? A
           | translation can only make the text worse. It can not make the
           | text better. This time it was only a question of underpants
           | but sometimes the result can include literal insults.
           | 
           | > because what else would an attempt at translating content
           | be?
           | 
           | Misguided?
           | 
           | I'm trying to be kind and helpful here: Please stop this. It
           | is not helpful, and every popular web browser already offers
           | a drop down menu bar button with a translation tool that is
           | not only potentially better but also under user control.
           | There is no upside to this user hostile design and the
           | downside is that it is confusing and potentially derogatory.
        
         | h1fra wrote:
         | I was greeted with a surprising "Underwear 2.0" (sic) in
         | french, so not only it's translated against my will (my
         | computer is configured in english) but it's badly translated
        
         | 0x457 wrote:
         | If you watch Hands on Katie on youtube (Katie created original
         | underwire) it will all make sense.
        
       | cmsj wrote:
       | I haven't played with the 2.0 stuff, but I do have the original
       | Underware on the underside of my desk.
       | 
       | I don't like the core concept of routing cables through what is
       | essentially 3d printed trunking. It's a ton of printing, and a
       | ton of faff to install. Instead I use their cable hooks at
       | various points along a cable run. Much quicker and easier to
       | manage after the fact.
       | 
       | This is probably the most useful underware thing I've printed
       | thus far, for securely holding various PSU bricks:
       | https://www.printables.com/model/1119354-double-clip-cable-t...
        
       | nkrebs13 wrote:
       | Will probably play around with this, looks slick.
       | 
       | For folks looking for some other options I bought this cheap
       | server raceway: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00008VFAP. Super nice
       | to run the cables into the slots and then let the mess be inside
       | there. I screwed one part into the desk and the cover I cut into
       | 4 pieces so I can remove only one piece if I need to move cords
       | around or whatever.
       | 
       | 3d printed a few pieces for power supplies and a power strip but
       | for the most part all cables go to the raceway. I had something
       | similar to this original "underware" at some point but it was a
       | pain in the ass whenever I changed cables/etc. So many extra
       | holes in the bottom of my desk now
        
         | prennert wrote:
         | This project seems to be building on top of Multiboard [0],
         | which is a lattice that is used as a base to mount all those
         | runners and equipment holders on.
         | 
         | So the idea is that you put a lattice up with "a few" screws
         | and then you can change everything else underneath without
         | having to screw around any further.
         | 
         | [0]: https://www.multiboard.io/
        
         | pftburger wrote:
         | +1 on this. Works wonders, costs nothing.
        
       | lovich wrote:
       | Interesting looking project and I'll probably try printing it out
       | and experimenting with it, but as an aside
       | 
       | Why is the maker and her site so porny but not porn? I thought I
       | had clicked the wrong Instagram link and had ended up on an Only
       | Fans model with all the downblouse shots, but it's never
       | mentioned or sold, just talks about the project.
        
         | 28304283409234 wrote:
         | > Why is the maker and her site so porny but not porn?
         | 
         | Sex sells.
         | 
         | The logo is a breast with nipple.
        
           | lovich wrote:
           | I guess I'm surprised at how quaint the commercialization is
           | then.
        
         | philsnow wrote:
         | You're getting downvoted but I'm similarly put off by the
         | gratuitous downblouse and upskirt shots (at least in the first
         | underware video [0] which is itself referred to from the linked
         | video).
         | 
         | I was more put off by how long the video is and how little the
         | actual underware system is on display. It seems more like a
         | branding exercise for the person in the video. Contrast that to
         | the tirst gridfinity video [1] which yea also has terrible puns
         | and wordplay, but which spends way more time showing off the
         | project.
         | 
         | [0] https://youtu.be/0TT96b98YZY
        
           | lovich wrote:
           | I wouldn't even say put off. I'd say more that I'd been
           | trained by the last couple of years of the general internet
           | that if signs like that exist there's an upcoming affiliate
           | link or link page you ignore.
           | 
           | Almost pleasantly surprised that it was legitimately
           | background to the concept and not yet another monetization
           | strategy
        
         | MikeTheGreat wrote:
         | For what it's worth, I had the same reaction as you. The still
         | image of the YouTube video prominently features a woman
         | standing, arms spread, with her nipples clearly visible because
         | she's not wearing a bra under her shirt.
         | 
         | Other comments here shed some light on this.
         | 
         | Apparently the original creator was aiming to create a system
         | that managed the wires under her desk, and named it underwire.
         | An underwire is a part of some bras, which is how they got to
         | the suggestive branding.
         | 
         | It looks like this is version 2.0 of the project / a fork of
         | the project so they changed the name slightly to underware, as
         | in 'hardware under your desk, to manage wires'
         | 
         | So it's a bit off for me (use sex to sell beer; tell me I'm
         | smart to sell nerd stuff) but at least it makes sense now.
         | 
         | Hope that helps!
        
       | SlackingOff123 wrote:
       | I've been looking for a reason to buy a 3d printer and I think
       | I've finally found it!
       | 
       | Anyone care to recommend some suitable (and beginner friendly)
       | printers?
        
         | dpe82 wrote:
         | Bambu Lab. Not open source friendly but they're the first
         | company whose printers more or less Just Work.
        
         | sturadnidge wrote:
         | If you want something that 'just works', it's hard to go past
         | the entry level options from Bambu Lab despite their march
         | towards Cloud and ecosystem lock in. If that kind of thing
         | bothers you, the new Creality 'Hi' series is probably where I'd
         | start if I was starting today. For other useful things to
         | print, check out Gridfinity as well!
        
         | lovich wrote:
         | Thirding on Bambu lab although they are supposed to be
         | announcing their newest model any day now. You may want to wait
         | a few weeks to see if you could pick up someone's p1p or p1s
         | for cheap if they are upgrading
        
       | smw wrote:
       | Can I buy pieces somewhere without buying a printer?
        
         | DoingIsLearning wrote:
         | Perhaps you are not familiar with it but you can literally
         | order just about any part in any material online.
         | 
         | Several business that used to print PCB's also do 3d printing
         | at very competitive rates.
         | 
         | I won't advertise names but it's easily found online. You
         | simple upload a stl file, select a material and that's kind of
         | it.
        
       | Bluescreenbuddy wrote:
       | Hmmmmmm....Some interesting camera shots in the video
        
       | diggan wrote:
       | This as of a good opportunity to ask as any: If I happen to sit
       | on 100s of different cables from the last two decades, that I all
       | want to keep yet they aren't actively in use, what are some good
       | way of storing those?
       | 
       | I initially just hanged them off pegs, but eventually the
       | variations became so many I had to figure something else out. At
       | the moment, they're just separated into boxes by what domain
       | (more or less) they belong to, but surely there has to be a
       | better way? I want them accessible but not in the way.
        
         | franky47 wrote:
         | Toilet paper cardboard tubes. You'll eventually collect enough,
         | and you can roll the cables into a flat loop, with the two ends
         | on the same side (helps with sorting by connectors), then
         | surround them with the cardboard tube. Store them vertically in
         | a drawer or a box (so you see only the connectors).
        
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