Megadesk
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Megadesk
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#2I just realized that I have a problem, where I think "why would I pay $50 for a PCB that I can design and make myself?" and then conclude "therefore nobody would pay".
Maybe I should start selling some of the PCBs I made.
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#3Hah! 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 :)
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#4I suggest they also program a child lock for the buttons. My son caught his fingers between a chair under the desk and the desk itself while pressing the down button, luckily I jumped in time to help. I've since then moved the controls on top of the desk and at the back.
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#5Can this be used to prank certain tall, beet farming, mustard yellow shirt wearing co workers at a midsized paper company ?
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#6Hah! 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 one and it is pretty good, at least considering the price. It is a little bit less stable feeling than I'd have liked, but overall ok.
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#7I 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.
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#8I just realized that I have a problem, where I think "why would I pay $50 for a PCB that I can design and make myself?" and then conclude "therefore nobody would pay". Maybe I should start selling some of the PCBs I made.
adafruit has made money on it.
There's money on providing easy to use hardware.
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#9I guess this makes mostly sense if you plan on extending the firmware. A stupid idea I was thinking about is a table that moves once a day into the standing position. I used to work at a standing desk and after a wile almost never used the feature. Maybe a warning-beep would make sense...
edit: mixed up the price, removed my first sentence
Re: Megadesk
#10I suggest they also program a child lock for the buttons. My son caught his fingers between a chair under the desk and the desk itself while pressing the down button, luckily I jumped in time to help. I've since then moved the controls on top of the desk and at the back.
The IKEA standing desk seems to have a safety key that needs to be plugged in for the desk to move.