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I'd love to see a new version of this in a little while with a few things reconsidered: 1. Portability is very important here, making it fold up small and be light 2. Simpler mechanism. Seems like it's too complicated to be easily adopted by many people. 3. Leveling, might be convenient to make it easy to level against the tree in both directions. Could integrate a level into the table itself.

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I'll only work on V2 of this after I get some funding through a campaign. Why? I'm a coder by trade. I'm not going to gamble with R&D on the table concept, if I have to bootstrap it on my own. If I get the funding, I'll go full time on this, and I'll surely make it more portable. I have to experiment with 3D printed parts, I think. It can't be done with stuff out of Home Depot.

I've contributed and I wish you luck! Keep improving and I think this concept could be great. Might want to try advertising outside of HN though

Hi Clay, I saw -- thanks. I refactored it, and it's simple to carry now. I've posted an update with a pic, I think you are receiving those.

I came up with an idea of how to make it portable, and documented it on the campaign page. See section "Portability improvements."

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