Finished project: standing desk

[derakon]

A friend of mine recently started a business making portable standing desks. Not much good to me since at home I use my desktop computer, and at work there's nowhere for me to clip onto, but it was sufficient motivation for me to get off my butt and make my own. This was an educational experience in many ways (read: lots of stuff went wrong in the

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[rimspace]

While I was working a coworker stopped by and noted that if I'd asked, the Health & Safety department would have gotten me a standing desk.
Going off my experience of H&S in universities, that is true. You might even have received it before 2016 or so. Of course, maybe US unis are better about that stuff.

That said, it does look good - nice use of wood colours, too. It looks pretty sturdy and nicely constructed. Are the holes along the insides of the vertical supports so that you can adjust the height of the keyboard/mouse tray?

Also, I've absolutely no idea how you survive with a single laptop screen!

[derakon]

Yeah, the holes are for the shelf support pins. The shelves just sit on the pins, so if you want a different height you can pull the shelf off, remove the pins, put them back in at a different level, and put the shelf back in.

That single screen is enough to have a 2x2 grid of terminal windows open. I do have a secondary display but it's mostly used for Remote Desktop, and with the addition of the standing desk it's gotten substantially more awkward to use.