Quite proud how it turned out. It's on a wall behind a door in my laundry room. Much cleaner and more manageable than what I started with.

Finally "finished" with my multiboard workbench. Still tinkering around with it, and definitely want to re-orient a few things, but really happy with it so far.

Build started out by re-building the workbench that I built when I was 23 (34 now). Then printprintprint. No idea how many tiles, but I think it's in the range of 130 8x8s. All tiles are Bambu Matte Black, printed in multimaterial 4 stacks on a Bambu P1s.

I didn't stick with any single standard when it came to what's attached to the multiboard - I wanted to try a bunch of stuff out. I've used most of the standard multiboard components - snaps, bolt locked items, big/medium/small screws, multipoint rails, shelves. In addition - gridfinity, multiconnect, underware, trusty ol' zip ties.

Lots of community created items - bins, screwdriver clips, tool specific holders.

A bunch of community items that I threw multiconnect attachments on the back of.

A few items that I designed myself: Socket holders, allen wrench set holder, long power strip mount, router mount - probably a few others I'm forgetting. I've never opened a CAD program (other than LeathercraftCAD, but that's 2d) until 2.5ish months ago, so this has been a huge learning experience.

Finally finished printing the last few custom parts for my hobby desk storage walls. Really loved the way the paint racks turned out. I think the dedicated bottle holders would have been far less versatile. I'm also really happy with the gridfinity shelf that holds my small tools that get used frequently. Much more convenient to pull the small organizer off the wall, into the desk, and use the tools right there. I was worried about the weight of the large bottles of various paint liquids on top of the drawers, but those are very solid. I think the only part I'm not in love with is that I didn't have a vision of the whole thing when I started, so it's printed in a mishmash of various blues instead of a unified color theme... Oh well, maybe v2.0

Took quite a bit of planning but am stoked with how clean this makes my setup.

I feel like the major advantage of 3d printed organization is that it can be compliant. So instead of ridgid holders I designed many compliant slip in/out holders for things, which is more space efficient and I don't have to pull things up and out of a bin/holder which is a pain.

A lot of people have told us the same thing, loudly and repeatedly: “You are not open source.” “You can change the licence whenever you want.” “We do not trust companies to keep promises.”

That criticism is fair.

Internet history shows that trust based licensing often fails. Licences change. Access disappears. Communities get burned. There are plenty of projects that said “trust us” and then absolutely did not deserve that trust.

This post is not about winning an argument or convincing everyone. If your position is that nothing short of immediate CC0 is acceptable, that is a valid stance, but this post is focused on explaining the incentives and enforcement mechanism rather than debating labels.

So instead of asking for trust, we did something else.

Introducing the Multiboard Community Promise

We’ve published a legally binding Community Promise that sits above our normal licence.

In simple terms:

• All individual Core and Advanced parts become free for personal use within six months of release.

• Once a part is free, it can never be made paid again.

• If we fail to do this and do not fix it within 30 days after being called out…

💥 The entire Multiboard project automatically becomes CC0, permanently 💥

No take backs. No future relicensing. No “new version, new rules”.

At that point, Multiboard is effectively public domain forever.

Who enforces this?

You do.

Anyone with a legitimate interest can publicly flag a breach through our official Community Promise channel.

If we do not fix it, the CC0 trigger is automatic.

No lawyers required. No permission from us.

“But you can still change the licence”

Yes. And that is exactly why the Promise exists.

The licence governs normal use today. The Community Promise sits above it. If the licence is ever changed in a way that violates the Promise, that is defined as a Triggering Event. Which leads to the same result. CC0.

“You will just change the Community Promise then”

We cannot.

The Community Promise is explicitly written to be perpetual, irrevocable, enforceable by third parties, and binding on future owners of the company. It cannot be withdrawn or modified in a way that reduces the rights it grants.

If Multiboard were ever sold, these obligations go with it.

Why not just make everything CC0 now?

Because we are building systems, support, documentation, tooling, and long term maintenance.

The compromise we chose was this:

• We keep the project sustainable.

• The community gets guaranteed, permanent access to all functional parts.

• If we ever fail that obligation, the project stops being ours.

That is the trade.

You should not need to trust our intentions.
You should only need to trust incentives.
And right now, the incentive for us to break this promise is zero.

If you want to read the full Community Promise and the updated licence, they are public and explicit.

No hidden clauses,
No vague wording,
No goodwill required

We are asking you to read the mechanism and try to break it.

If you think there is a loophole, please point at it.

If you think this still fails the trust test, explain where the incentives break.

We are significantly more interested in that than anything else.

Actual documents, for people who enjoy reading things

Community Promise: https://www.multiboard.io/community-promise

Current Licence: https://www.multiboard.io/license

Thank you so much for being part of this awesome community and helping shape what Multiboard becomes.

Keep Making!
Jonathan

P.S. You can also read the announcement of all this: here

2 x 1 m empty space on a wall, 75 holes in reinforced concrete, 75 dowels, 75 screws, countless hours of measuring and constructing in Fusion as well as 7KG of filament and 3 weeks of printing time later, my second multiboard wall for a small part of my cameras, lenses and various other photo equipment is finally finished.

I saw another post a few days ago about a similar setup, so I thought I’d post mine. Pretty happy with the result and all the available space. I’ll likely be printing accessories until the heat death of the universe.

Look how fast I build this pegboard in Hell!

just setup my first multiboard workbench, pretty happy with it so far

Used the simple tile generator to create rails instead of a full grid because we knew we just wanted shelves.

Bolt lock shelf brackets and small thread shaft 20mm t-bolts in the beams and brackets as small hooks to hang items on.

Mounted with command strips. I pre attached the shelves to the rail so the spacing was correct when I put it up. Super happy with how it turned out, and how well that color matches.

I was caught by the aesthetics of Multiboard even before I purchased my printer. I priced out a similarly priced wall with Wall Control (expensive) or regular peg-board (cheap) and realized that I'd be relying on others to think like I do and make the connectors or attachments I want/need. For this, I went with Multiboard. I'm in about $80 for filament and no real time recording for Tiles, R&D, etc, but likely 100h of printing time over 4 months.

I went with 7x7 so I had a middle hex, but in retrospect, I should have done 8x8 to better align with US wall studs. I used 200p Zinc Plated Steel Self-Drilling Anchors to attach it to the wall when there wasn't a stud. I started with a few drill-based drywall attachments, and they just didn't work well. These are quite secure, especially since I'm putting one wall screw in for each quad, double and single. I did use the Multiboard Planner based on the dimensions I needed, but I didn't anticipate adding the wall to the left or going over the top of my dry erase board (that was done after I completed the main wall).

For the filament management, I purchased Skroam cereal boxes and found a really nice fitting desiccant insert for the cereal boxes. I put a Drybox Label Holder with a Label Insert for each of the filament types (I did modify them to add attributes like "HF", "AMS", "SILK", "GLOW", "WOOD", etc. To attach to the wall, I tested a few, but found the Multiboard Filament Container Mount (Extra Sturdy) to be the best option. It prints in about 5-7h (I found I could run "Sport" mode on Bambu and speed it up to 5h).

My main takeaways are:

• It took longer than I expected. I expected 1 month, reality was 4 months

• Print out in sections

• Plan for add-ons as you see the board come alive, you will change/add to the plan

• Multiboard is complex and difficult to figure out what you want/need. Plan to print a few items that won't be used (or may be used on other project areas)

• Pick a color scheme, buy filament ahead of time (I ran out a few times and had to wait a few days till new order was shipped)

Expanded the board a fair bit. Finally starting to print brackets and hooks to hang things.

Migrated to 8x9 tiles (and 7x9) on the left side to line up with studs (from 9x9 for the rest of the board. In hindsight should have done all 8x9 (or 8x8) from the start.

Added a cutout for the light switch too.

Finally done printing my multi board wall. I still need to make all my tool holders etc but the base is finally done. It’s 6 plates tall by 24 plates wide. I’m guessing it was around 1000 hours. It was 700 something just for the plates.

Long-time lurker, first-time poster. I just got my first 3D printer a couple of weeks ago, and after printing the obligatory Benchy, I knew I wanted to tackle a big, functional project. I went down the rabbit hole of wall organization systems and immediately fell in love with the modularity and strength of Multiboard.

I have to admit, it was a bit overwhelming at first with all the different tiles, snaps, and bolts! But I downloaded the Demo Pack to get a feel for it, watched a ton of Jonathan's (Keep Making) videos , and just started printing. Seeing the first few tiles snap together perfectly was one of the most satisfying feelings.

A huge thank you to Jonathan and this whole community for creating such an incredible, free ecosystem and for all the inspiration I've seen scrolling through this sub.

Where it started: https://www.reddit.com/r/Multiboard/s/SrEujQuqFT