[HN Gopher] I Hacked My Standing Desk with a Raspberry Pi
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I Hacked My Standing Desk with a Raspberry Pi
 
Author : giuliomagnifico
Score  : 21 points
Date   : 2021-07-22 10:24 UTC (3 days ago)
 
web link (medium.com)
w3m dump (medium.com)
 
| northwest65 wrote:
| Came for the massive overkill, stayed for the abysmal soldering!
 
  | sys_64738 wrote:
  | You're not wrong.
 
| batuhanicoz wrote:
| I have a similar desk and I was going on a similar path before I
| noticed the company that made the desk's motor has a BLE adaptor
| for 15$ which solved my problem completely.
| 
| My desk was made by LINAK, who also provides some IKEA standing
| desks too. Here's the adaptor if anyone is interested:
| https://www.linak.com/products/accessories/bluetooth-adapter...
| 
| I use a script that's triggered with a keyboard shortcut which I
| find super cool.
 
| n4bz0r wrote:
| Good for the author, but the article leaves "MOM GET THE CAMERA!"
| impression.
| 
| >Then I just plugged the Pi into a USB power brick, and... it
| worked!
| 
| Might as well attach a diesel fueled generator and a pentium 4 to
| the back of the desk.
| 
| The project seems like a perfect opportunity to play around with
| some arduino-like board. It could probably be embedded inside the
| control panel and powered from the desk itself.
 
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