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Re: Affordable, automatic sit-to-stand desk

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Post by johnatwork »

vijayr wrote: post #42
DontBeADick wrote: post #16

$500!? Plus shipping!? You can make a standing desk with $100 worth of Ikea parts then buy a tall stool/chair for $75 on Amazon. Bam, just beat your "most affordable" sit/stand desk by $325+. Oh, and you can have it next week instead of next year (or later). I guess I'll start my Kickstarter campaign tonight. P.S. 45" is not enough height for many of us tall folk, especially in dress shoes with a thick heel.

I like this one - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/499144433/the-cardboard...

That seems pretty cool actually, but I wonder if there would be any wobble, or if it would feel a bit off writing on it.

Re: Affordable, automatic sit-to-stand desk

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Post by reustle »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #3

> The desk can lift up to 225 lbs. Okay, okay…it can actually lift more, but let’s keep things on the safe side. 255 lbs is 102kg; in other words, if I sit on this desk, I'm getting close to the breaking point. Not good :(. (INB4: yes, people do occasionally sit on their desks, sometimes without even thinking about it - e.g. when full of joy, or drunk. Also there's a good chance that someone at some point will want t…

Not that you need to be using the motor to lift yourself up and down. I'm sure the desk will still support your weight.

Something else to note is that further down it mentions that the 225 lbs limit doesn't include the weight of the table top, so it might be closer to 200.

Re: Affordable, automatic sit-to-stand desk

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Post by barake »

sschueller wrote: post #52
danudey wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because the Ikea Galant doesn't raise/lower on demand. It's a significant amount of effort to make it do so, and far more if it actually has things on it already.

The one I have at work has two buttons to raise and lower. Fully automated.

The motorized Ikea Galant is not sold in the US, for whatever reason.

Re: Affordable, automatic sit-to-stand desk

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Post by dfc »

osman123 wrote: post #28
TeMPOraL wrote: post #3

> The desk can lift up to 225 lbs. Okay, okay…it can actually lift more, but let’s keep things on the safe side. 255 lbs is 102kg; in other words, if I sit on this desk, I'm getting close to the breaking point. Not good :(. (INB4: yes, people do occasionally sit on their desks, sometimes without even thinking about it - e.g. when full of joy, or drunk. Also there's a good chance that someone at some point will want t…

Simple just don't let anybody overweight/obese get on the desk. Or do it in the morning and if it collapses it will make it easier for them to choose what to have for lunch. https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/bmi_tbl.pdf

Is BMI really the same for males/females? I always assumed that what is obese/overweight for a 5'9 woman would be different than a 5'9 man.

Re: Affordable, automatic sit-to-stand desk

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Post by robotresearcher »

hacknat wrote: post #39

Is giving us a list of your advisers (read: board) supposed to make me think that this is a truly community backed project? I'm sick of people using Kickstarter for free money and advertising on ideas that could be (and probably have been) readily pitched to investors. Kickstarter is supposed to be for projects that are interesting, but that traditional investors probably won't touch. A stand-sit desk hardly qualifie…

Relax, my friend. Kickstarter is an alternative to a traditional pitch. There's going to be a fuzzy overlap between conventional and otherwise-unfundable projects. No one gets to decide what qualifies. It's a market: just let it work. This project is not for you, but others like it. Why get sick?

Re: Affordable, automatic sit-to-stand desk

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Post by randomstring »

In our office we really like the MultiTable.com tables. These were the cheapest high quality tables we could find. Ikea now sells adjustable desks, but the last time I looked they didn't show up on the US version of their site. Ikea prices were comparable to MultiTable. You can buy your table top from MultiTable, or re-use your existing Ikea table tops as we did. Our company was able to negotiate a (modest) bulk discount as well.

http://heightadjustableworktable.com/index.php/manual-modtab...

Speaking of Ikea. I stared with an Ikea hack as my standing desk. Building a combo coffee table with a book shelf as a keyboard tray, all for about $34. That sat on top of my existing Ikea desk/table. I used that until I was convinced I wanted to stay with the standing desk.

There are two drawback to the Ikea hack solution. 1) they are not readily adjustable. You don't want to stand 100% of the time, certainly not when starting out. 2) they can be very top heavy if you have more than one monitor and a workstation AND a laptop.

The electric motors look cool, but are totally unnecessary. It takes about 10 seconds to crank the table up or down by hand.

What goes unmentioned in most standing desk articles is the need for a really good mat to stand on. Here are the best I've found that are also a reasonable price:

http://www.thehumansolution.com/notrax-974-ergomat-grande-an... http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001BQR23K/

Re: Affordable, automatic sit-to-stand desk

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Post by yabatopia »

sschueller wrote: post #19

Why not just get an ikea galant?

It looks very, very similar to the electric standing desk version of the IKEA Galant that I have at home. Too bad for US customers it's not available in their country, because it's a very solid ergonomic desk and reasonably priced.

The StandDesk offered on Kickstarter is a bit less expensive though. I've paid 499 euro (currently 688 USD) for it almost 4 years ago, and that was without the top (I think).

Re: Affordable, automatic sit-to-stand desk

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Post by venomsnake »

dfc wrote: post #64
osman123 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Simple just don't let anybody overweight/obese get on the desk. Or do it in the morning and if it collapses it will make it easier for them to choose what to have for lunch. https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/bmi_tbl.pdf

Is BMI really the same for males/females? I always assumed that what is obese/overweight for a 5'9 woman would be different than a 5'9 man.

Bmi is mostly bullshit. Much better indicators for overall health is the amount of belly fat and the fat around the internals organs. Having a lot of fat on the butt/thighs is much less damning than lets say fatty lever.
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