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Home Made Raspberry Pi Standing Desk Controller

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Re: Home Made Raspberry Pi Standing Desk Controller

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Post by solarkraft »

tomahony wrote: post #2

I 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

You say it's over-engineered, but every time I read it I think of something Mr. AvE said about the topic (albeit with physical materials, regarding Juicero, to be precise):

If it uses more material than required for the job it's over-built and under-engineered. Your solution seems to be massively that.

Re: Home Made Raspberry Pi Standing Desk Controller

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Post by p_l »

zaxomi wrote: post #27
tomahony wrote: post #2

I 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

Nice project. Do you have an emergency stop button?

Asking the important things here ! :D

Also, what positive safety control loop could a standing desk use?

Re: Home Made Raspberry Pi Standing Desk Controller

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Post by gjs278 »

ed25519FUUU wrote: post #28

I’m curious why someone might reach for an RPI for a project like this? The last Pi I was using was consuming something like 8 watts while idle. That’s like $1.50 a month in electricity here in the Bay Area... Many times, an arduino or esp32 would be more than capable with considerably less power usage.

oh my god not an entire $1.50

Re: Home Made Raspberry Pi Standing Desk Controller

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Post by numpad0 »

flak48 wrote: post #16
mdorazio wrote: post #6

I have to ask this most of the time I see an r-pi project: why r-pi instead of ESP8266 for something this simple?

Faster prototyping, I can ssh into a RasPi wirelessly and control the gpio via my terminal like a REPL, for the ESP I need to keep flashing newer firmware and control it via USB to serial. Feels a bit clunkier although not a huge difference. If I were making and selling some IoT hardware or if I wanted to re-use the RasPi for something else in my house, it would definitely make sense to move to an ESP/Arduino

I personally don’t like accidentally bumping Pi and waiting couple minutes with monitors to see if I have to start over from microSD part. Flashing ESP is slower than Atmega Arduinos but not as slow as Raspbian booting.

Re: Home Made Raspberry Pi Standing Desk Controller

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Post by rhinoceraptor »

scsilver wrote: post #25
entropie wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to do things that need an OS use RPI, if you want read/transfer sensor data or control basic servos esp8266 is a joy to work with. There are plenty of others, arduino is maybe more known as buzzword for microcontrollers.

You need a computer and the right cords to program a controller, the pi is that computer as well as the controller.

Yes, but you also get the downsides of having a full computer. Namely, it has an OS, it has an SD card that can wear out, it takes longer to boot, etc.

Re: Home Made Raspberry Pi Standing Desk Controller

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Post by beachy »

xxxtentachyon wrote: post #30
beachy wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've just been on this same journey building a sensor for the level in our home water tanks. I started with a raspberry pi, but then discovered esp32 with an lcd display for just a few bucks https://www.amazon.com/LILYGO-T-Display-Bluetooth-Developmen... .

How long have you been using it? I find random ESP32s off of Amazon to be a bit of a crapshoot, and I’ve taken to just sticking to big microcontroller integrators that I’ve used before.

It's still in dev, so I haven't run it for more than a few hours at a time. Seems OK so far.

Re: Home Made Raspberry Pi Standing Desk Controller

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Post by xellisx »

BostonEnginerd wrote: post #38
xellisx wrote: post #36

Several years back I was looking for an adjustable desk and was not liking the prices. I ended up buying this: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-62-in-Adjustable-Height-Wo...

I also bought this desk - works great!!

Yeah - I totally don't use it for standing. I get to engrossed with what I'm doing and I forget to to stand. But it hold my 4 monitors, laptop and mic stand just fine.
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