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Performed Mods:
Custom Built desk, built from Ply wood and pine
Monitors lifted by a 600mm 80kg throw actuator
Acrylic window cut into desk.
Self booting when screens raised
The project a came about when I acquired the 3 screens from a friend, after researching multi screen displays I stumbled across screens lifts and I had to do something similar.
I had just bought a new house with my girlfriend and had decided on one of the rooms to be a cinema room as I previously owned half the kit. The desk and the room were designed around each other and keeping in with the theme and decoration of the room I decided on a dark wood desk.
I built a simple monitor structure out of wood and bolted to the wall to keep it secure. The problem I had was able to keep the monitors close to the wall as possible while working with the design of the actuator which was very hard and went through 3 re designs. I then used some old monitors brackets to secure the two side monitors to the wooden plank.
One mod i really wanted to perform was a self booting pc, i used a micro switch screwed to the actuator frame which is flcked and activated by the elevation of the monitors by a bent Pclip simple but works :)
The hardware is accessible from the left panel from under the desk.
Unfortunately I was trying to do the project on quite a tight budget as I had a whole house to decorate ?
The Components belonged to my current rig but funds couldn’t really allow me to upgrade at the time. The pc is mainly used for photo editing with some light gaming at times. The hardware is due for a upgrade though but still serves my need fully at the moment.
Please check out the video for full demonstration.
2 Comments on The monitor Lift
what I can say, my opinion monitors are not in the middle of table, and not really comfy to seat, don't know how to explain.. "no space for leg's" :)
Regards - Tomas