I'm amazed at the tiny part size and part count/density "hobbyist-made" boards have achieved.
Megadesk
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Re: Megadesk
#62For those worrying about motorised desks and their safety, I just want to recommend Ikea’s manual desk. It works fine. I don’t know why I’d want a motor in it.
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#63Hah! I am in the market for a standing desk and am 95% sold on the IKEA Bekant. Just waiting to move to commit to the purchase. I wasn't keen on the crank but I figured I could live with it. This is a nice and fun addition :)
I have a Skarsta, which is a hand-crank-operated standing desk from IKEA, and I really like it. It's much cheaper than the mechanized version (Skarsta is $240 vs Bekant $400) and I don't miss having the electric controls, since I only change its position once a day at most.
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#64Hah! I am in the market for a standing desk and am 95% sold on the IKEA Bekant. Just waiting to move to commit to the purchase. I wasn't keen on the crank but I figured I could live with it. This is a nice and fun addition :)
The autonomous desk is sturdier, cheaper, bigger and actually has built in position memory settings etc. It’s served me amazingly over the past few months WFH. Definitely worth a look.
I have one of these... it needs to be re-greased, since it's currently making lots of noise when raising and lowering. It would also be vastly improved by implementing acceleration instead of just starting and stopping its motion at full speed. That's a design decision I completely fail to understand, since it's trivial to do in software on the board.
Re: Megadesk
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#66For those worrying about motorised desks and their safety, I just want to recommend Ikea’s manual desk. It works fine. I don’t know why I’d want a motor in it.
I went to the store to have a look at that desk. They had three on the floor including one that was assembled three days ago according to the staff there.
They were all so wobbly as to be unusable. Put some pressure on where the monitors or where you’re hands would be and everything shook.
Knowing how robust ikea is, I hard passed and got the stationary bekant. It still comes with legs that are quite adjustable (but only when you assemble it, I wouldn’t think it’s easy to set it with stuff on it)
So yes a word of caution I guess, that desk can be rather wobbly.
I didn’t go with the motorized bekant because I heard the electronics are not reliable at all and fails way too much needing warranty service. The less I go to ikea the better, and since their warranty is bring in (30kg desk)...
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
The autonomous desk is sturdier, cheaper, bigger and actually has built in position memory settings etc. It’s served me amazingly over the past few months WFH. Definitely worth a look.
I've just ordered these, so I'd be interested in any opinions. (Ideally ones that validate my decision to purchase, let's be honest.)
Haha.
My wife got one for herself and we were impressed enough that I got one as well a week later.
It’s been about 2 months and they are doing excellently.
Honestly, I was surprised by the weight and sturdiness for the cost (under $400).
4 memory positions and a very decent vertical range (it goes higher than I would find useful being 5’8” tall, although I wish it went slightly lower than its current lower limit).
It has 4 auto memory positions that is convenient since we occasionally swap desks, so it holds both our standing and sitting positions.
I honestly have no complaints.
I found the accessories a little annoying though. The swivel drawer accessory wanted me to drill a hole, which I was not comfortable doing in the desk at all. So I returned that. I can’t speak to how useful it would have been. The cable holding undercarriage is excellent to hide all the wires, etc, but it sits really close to the desk, so it’s a little difficult to maneuver stuff in there, especially since I’m using it to hold my spike guard and have all the plugs plug into it. But once I managed to get everything plugged in it looks great.
So my wife and I are huge fans so far. I’m not sure how good it will be a few years from now, but I have no reason to believe it won’t last and be excellent.
So much so I am considering buying their ergonomic chairs as well, once this whole pandemic situation clears up a bit.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
The autonomous desk is sturdier, cheaper, bigger and actually has built in position memory settings etc. It’s served me amazingly over the past few months WFH. Definitely worth a look.
I have one of these... it needs to be re-greased, since it's currently making lots of noise when raising and lowering. It would also be vastly improved by implementing acceleration instead of just starting and stopping its motion at full speed. That's a design decision I completely fail to understand, since it's trivial to do in software on the board.
Our desks accelerate and deccelerate. Maybe they’ve updated the model? I think mine is the smart desk 2 (their model numbers are confusing. I’m pretty sure I was looking at the wrong YouTube video while building it).
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
The seller provides all the Gerber files, BOM, etc. https://github.com/gcormier/megadesk But it's pretty clear many are buying the pre-assembled kit. Hand soldering SMD components is pretty tedious.
I bought one of the kits and assembled it myself (although it looks like kits aren't currently for sale.) The only hiccup I had during assembly is the random board profile I found in the Arduino IDE had the chip layout reversed which took me a few minutes to figure out based on the source.
Yeah there was an issue a while ago with the ATTiny library and they switched the pin definitions. Was indeed a frustrating time to figure that out initially when the library switched it and all of a sudden everything stopped working!
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#70I have one of these. It makes the IKEA desk much nicer. Being able to adjust to pre-defined heights is something that should have been supported from the start. The only real complaint that I have is how difficult it was to swap the original board for this one. But changing boards was probably not high on the IKEA priority list.
We can call it the "BEKANT Tatoo" when you stab yourself with a spudger trying to open that damned case.