Home Made Raspberry Pi Standing Desk Controller
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Home Made Raspberry Pi Standing Desk Controller
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#2I mentioned this in a HN post in the past regarding standing desks, mentioning that I'd created an over-engineered standing desk controller (using a Raspberry Pi) over lockdown as as little fun project. Somebody asked about a write-up for it, so here it is
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#3I mentioned this in a HN post in the past regarding standing desks, mentioning that I'd created an over-engineered standing desk controller (using a Raspberry Pi) over lockdown as as little fun project. Somebody asked about a write-up for it, so here it is
Thanks for this!
I have yet to actually build anything that controls hardware, but I have been lurking, reading about microcontrollers, collecting little bits.
An actual application, a solution to a real problem or neat project, is the best way to make it real.
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#4Clever use of an ultrasonic distance sensor. I think one of those cheap time of flight proximity sensors would work too.
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#5I love the idea of accidentally leaving a shoe (or whatever) underneath the height sensor and being confused about why the desk moves to the wrong height...
Clever though!
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#6I have to ask this most of the time I see an r-pi project: why r-pi instead of ESP8266 for something this simple?
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#7I have to ask this most of the time I see an r-pi project: why r-pi instead of ESP8266 for something this simple?
I’ve never heard of the ESP8266, but I have heard of (and used, for several projects) the RPi. That’s probably the reason for a lot of people.
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#8I have to ask this most of the time I see an r-pi project: why r-pi instead of ESP8266 for something this simple?
Yes!
Replace the ESP8266 with some Arduino clone for 3.50 € and you'll even be more beginner friendly...
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#9I have to ask this most of the time I see an r-pi project: why r-pi instead of ESP8266 for something this simple?
It is true that pi is complete overkill for such a project, but it is very convenient and lots of people have experience with it.
Plus your standing desk could also be a pi-hole for wifi security.
Re: Home Made Raspberry Pi Standing Desk Controller
#10I mentioned this in a HN post in the past regarding standing desks, mentioning that I'd created an over-engineered standing desk controller (using a Raspberry Pi) over lockdown as as little fun project. Somebody asked about a write-up for it, so here it is
Thanks for this! I have yet to actually build anything that controls hardware, but I have been lurking, reading about microcontrollers, collecting little bits. An actual application, a solution to a real problem or neat project, is the best way to make it real.
If you have some disposable income buy an Arduino kit from say elegoo. They come with a lot of little labs, basically 30 min - 1 hour exercises where you take one of the 30 physical devices it comes with and use it.a little bit of Lego like assembling of parts and copying some code from GitHub.
So like a led (light) is one lab. The next might be a photo sensor (signal with amount of light). After these two labs you can now make a night light. Or a rave strobe.
Do the switch or button lab and you can turn it on or off or change the pattern. After 30 labs you have a pretty good idea of what to do.
Now buy an esp32 that works with a breadboard and if you know basic http you now have an iot device.
I recently hooked an esp32 to a dht22 and started graphing temp in my gourmet mushroom enclosure in about an hour of watching baseball. Just sends data to influx and grafana on an rpi data hub