If anyone has concerns about the reliability/safety of electric desks and are also put off by crank desks, I can recommend pneumatic standing desks. They can transition between standing and seated very quickly, faster than either crank and motor. This looks like what we have in our office: https://www.standupdeskstore.com/pneumatic-adjustable-height...
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#102Hmm, I could use this finally realize my dream of the "Squatting Desk".
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The pin spacing on J2 looks like it would need a pretty steady hand to me. Though it appears only 3 of the pins matter.
I have access to a SMD oven (just a toaster oven with a fancy controller.) Manually applied solder paste, placed the parts and they flowed just fine. Same process with a hot air gun should work but will be a little more finicky.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
The pin spacing on J2 looks like it would need a pretty steady hand to me. Though it appears only 3 of the pins matter.
I have access to a SMD oven (just a toaster oven with a fancy controller.) Manually applied solder paste, placed the parts and they flowed just fine. Same process with a hot air gun should work but will be a little more finicky.
I'll have to try that out. I suspect I'd still have trouble like accidentally shaking the components off center while putting them in the oven.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been considering a new desk recently, since I will be WFH for the foreseeable future, and I'm considering the Jarvis. How's the lateral stability in a Jarvis? I want to be able to mount a gaming wheel with very strong force feedback to my desk, and the Jarvis's lack of a cross bar makes me doubt it's as strong as an UpLift V2 desk which I'm also considering.
I happen to have both a Jarvis desk I bought 3 years ago, and just recently bought an UpLift v2 with the commercial crossbar package as an additional desk in my office. Both sit next to each other, making comparison easy. I was content with my Jarvis until I received the Uplift. Stability comparisons are night and day: Uplift (with crossbar) has vastly superior stability at standing heights. The Jarvis has noticeable…
Thank you for the info!
Do you think it's worth the extra money for the 4-legged Uplift? Would it be more stable than a C-frame or T-frame?
Did you also get Uplift's CPU holder? I'm unsure of the ability of it to fit over the crossbar of the commercial frames.
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#106I have a Jarvis standing desk right now and I'm very happy with it, but I've recently gone on a home automation bender and want to automate all the things. In particular, I'd like to be able to control the desk remotely so that I can add it to a Home Assistant script that fires via an Alexa skill. This seems a bit silly, but I have a whole configuration that I use for coding that is different to the config that I use…
When you automate slow moving machineries and it picks up your finger, that kind of situations may present quite inconvenient results, so,
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#107I recently got myself a commercial-grade Workrite Sierra HX Electric standing corner desk to make what appears to be a pretty permanent WFH situation more pleasant. Safe to say I won't be volunteering to go back to the office anytime soon. Video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h6ja2epcja2cwd8/standing_desk.mp4 You can even kneel on the ground with this one, because it goes as low as 22.5" as per BIFMA G1-2013 requirements…
In the IDÅSEN they use Linak motors, gears and electronics. Most likely in yours too, which is a good thing. Linac motors are great.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
While researching for standing desks to buy, I came across this [1] listing the problems with the Bekant. The stability issue is a design problem and hard to fix. [1] https://www.btod.com/blog/problems-ikea-bekant-desk/
Be careful with btod reviews and blog posts. They sell their own desks under the VertDesk and NewHeights brands.
Good to know. Thanks.
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#109IKEA has a new standup desk called IDÅSEN: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/idasen-desk-sit-stand-black-dar... It can be controlled via Bluetooth with an app on your mobile. It is a much better option in comparison to Bekant in my opinion. The tabletop on IDÅSEN is much thicker too, making monitor mounts safer to install. If you are on the market for a standup desk with good value, pay $100 more and buy IDÅSEN instead of…
I had a feature request to support IDASEN and came to the same conclusion. However, for myself (and I suspect others), I don't need yet another app to do something. I want to push a button and be finished in 1 second for something like a desk. Cognitive load on this should be zero.
Generally these devices use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for control, which has a well-defined 'schema' where devices expose 'services' which contain a number of read/write/notify 'characteristics' that are used for control. It's pretty easy to reverse engineer this stuff, I spent around two hours doing it with a sleep number adjustable bed base. Once you have the protocol of course you can just write a program to connect to the MAC address and send the commands. Another response to the parent shows that this has already been done.
On Android the free (as in money) NRF Connect application lets you browse the services/characteristics, tells you which ones are read/write/notify, and snoop+send data. I also had to use the 'Bluetooth Snoop Log' setting in Developer Options and open the log in Wireshark to sniff some of the packets that the app sent. The log contains timestamps so you can wait 10 seconds between operations to make it really easy to identify what does what. All you need in Wireshark is a filter like 'btatt.uuid128 == ff...:ff' to filter to just the characteristic you want to sniff.
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#110So it's called the "Megadesk," but it has an ATtiny...