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Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Re: Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Post by ajcp »

tobr wrote: post #17
_fat_santa wrote: post #2

It's cool but also kinda wild to hire a design firm to figure out the layout of your home office. Personally my home office is very "personal" and one of the things I enjoyed the most is figuring out where everything should go. To me this is the same as hiring a development firm to build you a set of dotfiles.

If this was a write-up about someone’s personal WFH office setup, it would be pretty cool. Written as a case by a design firm it seems very underwhelming. It just looks like a tiny room crammed with equipment. Wouldn’t you at least go for custom-made shelving to use every last millimeter of the room as well as possible?

If you read the writeup you'll see that it was part aesthetic choice and price consideration.

Re: Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Post by DarmokJalad1701 »

brunohaid wrote: post #22

Oh, didn't think that'd make it to the front page, appreciated! OP and builder here. The website was purely because a friend and I were looking for design work during lockdown and put together a couple of things we recently worked on, but basic design and build was a fun ~6 months solo project. We had a good discussion on https://www.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/1mlo6hu/tryin... over the weekend with more detai…

Sick flight sim setup!

I basically never sim now because of how much of a hassle it is to get the whole thing setup. And then it just sits taking up space on the desk and I don't use the desktop for anything else for a while.

Re: Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Post by petcat »

brunohaid wrote: post #22

Oh, didn't think that'd make it to the front page, appreciated! OP and builder here. The website was purely because a friend and I were looking for design work during lockdown and put together a couple of things we recently worked on, but basic design and build was a fun ~6 months solo project. We had a good discussion on https://www.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/1mlo6hu/tryin... over the weekend with more detai…

It looks great, but, (no offense), that looks like the most uncomfortable home-office seating arrangement of all time. Your legs can't fit under the desk, and the low-back chair looks like it's for show, not sitting. I fear for your back!

Re: Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Post by rideontime »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #28
loa_in_ wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not foolish. Design is subjective and it's most often a question with no objectively good answer, so it's between the designer and whoever appraises his output. There's no secret design paradigm that makes everyone happy.

>It's not foolish. It is all about fooling the viewer. Like for example seeing some run down old buildings in US or Eastern Europe will make people scoff, but if you show them similar looking run down buildings in South Mediterranean Europe or Japan they will be in awe. It's about perception. >Design is subjective No it isn't. Just like art and people's appearances, there's unanimously objective on what's beautiful a…

Which redesigned Pepsi logo are you referring to here? The one with the legendary design document[0] lasted from 2008 to 2023.

[0] https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

Re: Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Post by brunohaid »

petcat wrote: post #43
brunohaid wrote: post #22

Oh, didn't think that'd make it to the front page, appreciated! OP and builder here. The website was purely because a friend and I were looking for design work during lockdown and put together a couple of things we recently worked on, but basic design and build was a fun ~6 months solo project. We had a good discussion on https://www.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/1mlo6hu/tryin... over the weekend with more detai…

It looks great, but, (no offense), that looks like the most uncomfortable home-office seating arrangement of all time. Your legs can't fit under the desk, and the low-back chair looks like it's for show, not sitting. I fear for your back!

None taken! Cut the shelving to my (elbows at 90 degrees) standing desk height and used it that way about 80% of the time, and for the rest the drafting height barstool like chair worked well, as the legs are naturally angled.

Re: Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Post by brunohaid »

DarmokJalad1701 wrote: post #42
brunohaid wrote: post #22

Oh, didn't think that'd make it to the front page, appreciated! OP and builder here. The website was purely because a friend and I were looking for design work during lockdown and put together a couple of things we recently worked on, but basic design and build was a fun ~6 months solo project. We had a good discussion on https://www.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/1mlo6hu/tryin... over the weekend with more detai…

Sick flight sim setup! I basically never sim now because of how much of a hassle it is to get the whole thing setup. And then it just sits taking up space on the desk and I don't use the desktop for anything else for a while.

Thanks! And: Same. It got much better since the early days of MSFS 2020, and tried picking gear that has solid drivers/good scripting APIs, but I also rarely get it out just for fun, for the same reasons (except the occasional barrel rolls in a TBM over Manhattan cravings). It is great to have for a bunch of practice runs before actually heading to a new airport for the first time though.

Re: Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Post by dpc_01234 »

evanjrowley wrote: post #12
dpc_01234 wrote: post #4

How do you call these plug into holes every inch frames used for this? I could use something like this for related projects.

There really is no precise name for these. Source: A technology hoarder who has too many shelves like this full of junk. Edit: I stand corrected by @bobson381 I have several of these under the Gorilla Rack brand name and they're sold as Industrial Shelving Units . Home Depot in the US also sells these under the Muscle Rack and Edsal brands. These shelves are good, but I caution against using them in rooms with uneven…

Thanks. Good pointers.

I do have a whole rack in a garage kind of like it, but I was hoping I could get something nicer and painted like in the article, ideally with different length elements, so I could make custom furniture from them, and then just cut MDF boards to size or something.

Re: Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Post by outside1234 »

jasonpeacock wrote: post #6

That's a lot of words for "We put some industrial shelving in a closet with a keyboard and computer monitors, and we made it all beige."

"The software you just built is a complicated version of what I could have built in Excel."
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