Mechanized desk setup
I want to preface that I’ve never done robotics before and I understand this is likely a large undertaking for someone with no experience. But I want to try anyways
A little background. I just moved and I’m styling my room dark academia. But my monitors look like crap and ruin the vibe. So I wanted to make a desk that would hide them.
Here’s the issue. I could totally make this simple but where’s the fun in that. So I wanted to make my own desk
What I was thinking (again with no experience) is to have a two step solution. I want to have a linear actuator that would push the entire top of the desk forwards towards the user. This will be supported by guard rails to help with the shearing force from use. Then have a monitor lift mount system that would raise the monitors up in the space left behind by the top of the desk (or another actuator system so I can put my keyboard under the monitors).
Then it would all go in the opposite direction with I turn it off.
Any thoughts are appreciated, and if you have easier solutions I would be very open to hearing them.