Here's a little tip that may help some of you who, like me, are short of
desk space and are always swapping between their PC keyboard and a
wheel setup (bit of a PITA, of course).
On my desk, it's more or less one or the other; I ended up stuffing the
keyboard between the wheel and the pc or behind the pc altogether when I
wanted to race for a while. Looked rather messy, of course.
Then i was saving some replays in GPL and held the keyboard on my knees
for typing in the replay names. I happened to flip the 'board over and
found it fit upside down *under* the desk plate where the wheel (or
keyboard) sat on. That gave me an idea.
I found I could stick the front side of the (upside-down, so bottom side
up) keyboard between the protruding desk plate and the desk itself -
there was a bit of a gap. The keyboard hung down a bit, but stayed put
and it was basically out of the way, somewhere above me knees. So all I
had to do was put a little bracket on one side, on the underside of the
desk plate that is, to hold the whole thing up neatly.
So now when I race I have my wheel on the place where the keyboard
usually is, and the board itself is (bottom side up) under the desk
plate where the wheel resides on. Works nicely, I only have to take it
out and flip it over. Much better than getting rid of that wheel combo
all the time.
It's just a little thing, but it works pretty nicely here and maybe
it'll give some of you an idea.
Regards, Ruud
Seen sideways:
<Wheel> |PC |
<Me> ---------------
<keys> |Desk |
PS. Oh yeah, and of course the pc's under a wooden stand with another
(flat) laptop dock on top of it, and the monitor on top of that, doing
away with the monitor stand in the process... Always making use of every
bit o' room ;)
