Here’s my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)
Hey it’s more than good enough to run all this ¯_(ツ)_/¯
In a walk-in closet. Hdd laying on power cable to reduce vibration, works unexpectedly good.
A little late to the party, but here’s mine.
What are the specs on that pepsi box? How’s it handle the load???
It’s only the mini Pepsi cans iirc, so they aren’t as load bearing as I’d like. God willing, I’ll upgrade to fanta boxes one day.
Oh yeah, now that’s a HOMElab
Love it.
Still busy building it. Have a few more parts to print, like the back trim and plug holder, and I need to remove the protective plastic from the aluminum sheets.
Love it, i’ll probably end up doing something like that with a few HP elitedesk.
Thanks! I made it from some scrap pieces of wood from my IKEA headboard, aluminium extrusions and some aluminium sheets, then just 3D printed trim and fittings.
I was lucky and got a good deal on some ram, so each has 24gb.
Its supposed to be my kubernetes homelab. My actual server is hidden in the electrical box in my apartment.
sexy 😍
Love this thread, here’s my contribution
Just a pi4B and some external drives for Linux ISOs
edit : they resting on a piece of foam to reduce vibrations
Bonus pic of the zigbee dongle for Home Assistant
I bought a 16U rack this year to organize stuff a bit. Zigbee dongle is still installed exactly like this. I’m not convinced there’s a better solution.
Honestly, I doubt there is. You’re suspending it away from metal and wood, seems like the best solution other than replacing the antenna with something expensive and “mounting” that separately.
It is the way
You may get better signal by not folding the antenna.
Oh! So you mean pointing it downward? Would you mind explain how that works? I’m clueless when it comes to these things
Some context, the house is on two levels and this is level 0. The ceiling above is level 1. Also we’re on the edge of the house not the center, the tip of the antenna is pointing towards the center
Just letting it be straight, as if it didn’t have that joint that allows it to bend 90º, but test and see.
this is the way :)
That’s how my ZigBee dongle is mounted, except it’s resting on a shelf
It must hang for its sins (of not working when too close to the pi)
Nice cooler on the pi
Yea really happy with it. It only struggled some summers when I used to live in a small apartment in a large city.
✅ Rackmounted
❌ Professional
What front end are using for your apps? Looks nice.
heimdall
they posted further down that it’s heimdall
heimdall
Hey it’s my desktop! Love that case. Horizontal motherboards make more sense with how big graphics cards have gotten.
BEHOLD! THE MOTHERBOARD!
“Beware of the leopard.”
This has got grit! I love it.
Wow!
When I’m rich I will also get a NAS/multiple drive enclosure (and fill it, hence the “rich” condition).
Built a year ago, didn’t change anything but drives since. PCengine APU OpnSense, two Proxmox cluster hosts, one mini PC NAS with JBOD. All DIY.
Way too professional looking for this thread.
Also, you got a link to that sticker? Maybe I’ll add that as an ironic reminder to my “Kabelsalat” 😅
I think I missed the irony 🙈
It’s from Kaoskvlt
I’ve seen that one before!
Yeah I posted it when I built it :)
a bunch of ebay specials with more ebay parts scavenged over time + some 3d printing.
The centre tower has a miniitx mb and PSU behind those panels to run the NAS, and the drive bays are in the bottom.
The right is a failover cluster that isn’t finished yet.
That’s a very tiny, dense lab!
i’m not utilising it nearly as much as i should which is why i haven’t gotten around to the failover cluster yet.
Same here wrt utilization. I’ve excess capacity and can’t seem to find anything I want to use it on.
Slick for ebay parts. The 3d printed extras are sharp.
Wow, that looks really good! I like the labels on each server! Are the 3d printed parts custom or did you find them online?
Custom printed.
The front rack grills, keystone panels and thinkcentre mounts are from a website but all the other printed parts are custom.
Behold the Splendor!
- TerraMaster 4 bay - 30 TB usable and hosts all family services
- China special N100 - runs OPNsense
- gobox to provide a SIP DECT bridge; wife wants a landline. I don’t get it either.
- ZBT-2 ZigBee antenna for garage alarm and handling a bunch of IKEA lights.
- a Hive heating controller (UK “smart” heating system).
- A switch with bondable ports.
- All sitting on a custom-built shelf with lots of ventilation and cabling routing holes.
Kudos on taking no space.
The white leds are a nice touch :p (i’m totally not jelly)
Not too noisy? I’m curious.
Not at all! I upgraded the heavy lifters case fans to all noctuas, there’s still fan noise but it’s very easily drowned out. Actually the most noise came from my HAL model. Partly sunny days would trigger its sensor and it’d randomly start spewing lines.
Only two of the minis are in use. The other two i am just messing with different things. Still have three more not in use and unsure what I am going to do with them. Two extreme AP not being used and probably never will.
3 more not in use you say? Willing to part with any of your unused tech?
What kinda monitor arm is that? I have one for a lil monitor I have but it uses a clamp on the top and bottom of the screen instead of screwing in. I’m looking for one that doesn’t stress the screen with so much pressure!
I honestly don’t remember but I got it at Walmart for like $20 for a double monitor. The monitor is have is 27" and never had any issues with it.
Thank you! I’ll do some digging. The dang thing has mounting holes but they’re NOT VESA. But 40USD for an IPS 1080p panel that can be powered AND video’d through one USB-C cable I can’t complain about!
The outdated books are a nice touch 🤌 :)
Oh also since you literally have more hp elite desks than you can use, please send me one :)
This is a great thread. I had to join too!
I have my “network closet” which is like a hole in the wall where my ISP comes in:
And then my “server room” which is literally a closet. There’s a big ass old enterprise server and a 3 node laptop cluster:
Using the closet rod for that extra cable management
Perfection.
Eh, you know at work there’s one closet like that per floor :)
Kinda in a lull with homelabbing ATM, but here I’ve got my router in a custom 3d printed mini rack with 3d printed patch panel, and a couple of old NUCs. Only thing I really use day-to-day is a NUC connected to an amp so I can use the amp as a Spotify connect client
Oh now that is clean. Works really well with the overall display of vinyls.
Here my homelab.
I moved not too long ago and I am still lacking some furniture, so it’s on the floor with cables lying wild. Does not look like much but it actually covers almost all my needs.
I still need a VPS because of email ports and resident ISP not being compatible…
