My Three Screens...

[Aggie]

I'm with you; I'll slap together some unlikely looking things to solve a problem around the homestead, but marketing requires form (function desired but not always required).

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

I'm with you; I'll slap together some unlikely looking things to solve a problem around the homestead, but marketing requires form (function desired but not always required).

Yep.  Anyone shopping for cars knows this:  with cars, function is always last on the list... form is first and foremost.  They design the shell, and then present it to the engineers to try to make it functional.

Not always successfully.

I still remember the back 3 spark plugs on my Chrysler minivan... to fit that engine within the demands of form, the functionality of maintenance was simply gone.  You had to crawl underneath, reach up past the exhaust pipe (better make damn sure it's cold-- it's right next to the cat) and feel around for the plugs, changing them by braille.  And no, a second pair of eyes up-top would not have helped-- you could not see them from above, either.  If you jacked your head in an unnatural position, tilted to the side and elevated, you could just manage to spot'em... but now your shoulders are too high for your arms to get into that space, so you had to lay back down and do it by feel.

meh.

I sometimes despise form/design.  

With me, form is always secondary to function and ease-of-use.  Always.  

Second?  Is control-- and sometimes control (-ability) is number one, even over function.

Which h'explains why I don't do Apple ...  <snarky-smile>

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Okay, I have some poor-quality pics, but I cannot locate my PhotoBucket pswrd.... I'll upload later.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Okay, these are long-loading, sorry.

First, the display lay-out:

Right-view, center and right-panels (sorry for the poor quality-- camera phone)




Left-view, left panel and center display:


(The all-three did not upload for some odd reason, maybe later)

Here's the shelf for the PC, and it shows a little of the backbone, running left-right the entire width of the desk/table.  It also gives a partial view of the left pivot-arm.


Here's the right-hand upright support legs, 2 2x4's in detail.  You can see how I sandwiched the backbone between these two uprights, and part of the extension leg.


Here's the rest of the right extension leg, and in the lower-left corner, you can see the top of one of my VESA adapter brackets.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Okay, next set:


Here is the detail for the right-hand pivot bracket's attachment, you can see the heavy-duty door hinge, and the 'lid support bracket' I used to keep the arm from moving wildly.  (the brass arc)


Here's the left-panel's VESA bracket.  The panel is swung all the way to the left for this pic, to show it better.  You can also see how it attaches to my adapter bracket, and get an idea of how I made the wooden parts.


Here's the center VESA bracket, monitor tilted all the way down.  You can see the top of my wooden adapter, too.  Notice how the Gorilla Glue has oozed out around the back of the Dell...   The wood pieces at the bottom are glued between the too-flimsy commercial adapter I ordered, and the back of the Dell's case.


Here's another detail of my wooden adapter bracket, from the side, where you can see how I laid it out.  I made the top-piece long on purpose:  to give more surface for the thick metal L-brackets, and to provide a gripping handle for lifting it off the backbone/pivot arms.   As you can see, the L-pieces are longer that would have fit, if I'd used flush pieces for the top.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Here's the 3-panel shot:

(note to Zono-- pay careful attention to the shelves behind the right-hand monitor... )

[pieces o nine]

Very nice, Bob!

I will definitely run any future mad-artist construction plans past the mechanical minds in this place! 

[Griffin NoName]

I see you have a space for a cup of coffee!

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Too right, Griff-- gotta have my cuppa.

The thing I love best about this set-up?

My desk/table-top is completely free of anything resting on it, apart from it's edges and the keyboard-space.   I've been tidying it up, some.  I think I'll get a pen holder, as I found like a dozen pens what were lost in the wire-clutter before.  (the wire's are all in the aforementioned bucket, "below-ground".  No, don't look under the desk....

By putting the PC up high like that, it's much easier to access either the front or the back where all the plugs are.  And I think it stays a great deal less dusty, too-- I had it open just the other day, and it was surprisingly dust-free.


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Very nice, Bob!

t.y.

I will definitely run any future mad-artist construction plans past the mechanical minds in this place! 

You betcha-- there's nefarious, trick'sty-minds in this place for sure'zy.

[anthrobabe]

I have 6 screens at work-- we just higgledy piggeldy set them on whatever to make it work--- at one station we have one sitting upon an old box of the pin type printer paper.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

I have 6 screens at work-- we just higgledy piggeldy set them on whatever to make it work--- at one station we have one sitting upon an old box of the pin type printer paper.

Pray tell-- does that paper have light-green bars across it in a regular pattern?



I used to have a coupla boxes of that stuff lying around... 15" wide, as I recall, with a perforation at each pin-hole edge, and a lengthwise one approximately 8 1/2" inches from the left-edge perfs....

... use'ta take notes in College on scraps of that stuff-- you could take all you wanted outa the computer lab in the basement-- sure, it had printing on one side, so what?  The other side was all nice and blank.

[Griffin NoName]

I still use some of that old paper for scribbling notes and such. It's perfect.

[anthrobabe]

I have 6 screens at work-- we just higgledy piggeldy set them on whatever to make it work--- at one station we have one sitting upon an old box of the pin type printer paper.

Pray tell-- does that paper have light-green bars across it in a regular pattern?



I used to have a coupla boxes of that stuff lying around... 15" wide, as I recall, with a perforation at each pin-hole edge, and a lengthwise one approximately 8 1/2" inches from the left-edge perfs....

... use'ta take notes in College on scraps of that stuff-- you could take all you wanted outa the computer lab in the basement-- sure, it had printing on one side, so what?  The other side was all nice and blank.

Indeed that would be it--- I am hoping that I can claim it as soon as it becomes archaeological quality-- maybe soon--it is old. And I love the recycling idea-- I use everything I can for notes at work-- we print the daily work sheets one sided and I use the last days for starters when I come on shift.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I finally got my eyefinity set going, I can play using my three screens, and it's awesome. There is one downside, as the system considers everything to be one big screen if you maximize any window, it takes all 3 screens. Also, if I do a full screen while watching netflix it now takes over everything and I can't even put windows on the sides.

But playing games is so incredibly great like this... 

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Yeah, I noticed that too-- I rarely use "max-screen" any more-- I drag the window up to fill whichever screen I want it in, leaving the other 2 loose.   Even FireFox, which had been run exclusively full-screen since I switched from Mozilla-proper.  Now she's nearly-full screen, center one.   I have IE on the right screen, nearly-full too.  (For those times I must navigate M$ website for a tech question, and obtain a software patch...)

E-mail on the left screen, again near-full.  I love having both going at once, but not on-top of each other.

But you're correct-- gaming is Da Bomb.

I'm currently waiting for the new Deus Ex game to drop in price... then, I'm all over that.

[Bluenose]

Umm, I have not had any 3 screen set ups to play with, but I have configured two screens for a number of clients and I have never had the problem of a maximised application filling more then one screen.  I wonder why you guys get this.  I assume you're running Windows.  Of course if you're running something else then that's another question entirely.