This repository contains the software for a software-controlled adjustable desk.

##Background Several years back I started using a standing desk at home and work. My first standing desk was the simple $22 Ikea standing desk build. It was great and got me hooked.

In 2014/2015 I considered buying a commercial electic standing desk but decided instead to build my own.

You can see more about the build process on my blog (https://brentonc.com/tag/robot-desk/), including the hardware used and how to wire the actuators to the raspberry pi.

This repository contains the following:

• Arduino: an early attempt at the software using an Arduino board
• Design: sketchup files showing desk construction plan
• RPi: the software for the Raspberry pi.
  • robotdesk.py: this is the central raspberry pi software to control the desk via GPIO
  • robotdeskcloud.py: this program listens to a web service for remote commands (typically via Amazon Alexa voice service)

-w: 'whatif' mode. Runs the code without actually turning GPIO pins. Useful for testing on a non-raspberry pi device that doesn't have GPIO pins

-t 'test run' mode. Exercises a specific set of actions to exercise the software

-q 'quiet' mode. If specified no position messages will be sent to the cloud recorder.

Normal usage: sudo python3 robotdesk.py

Whatif usage (useful for testing on a non-raspberry pi device that doesn't have GPIO) sudo python3 robotdesk.py -w

Cloud command listener: sudo python3 robotdeskcloud.py

The RobotDesk program depends on the following external packages:

• Raspberry Pi hardware
• Python 3.. Not currently tested with python 2.
• Azure SDK
• pip install azure