Everything I've built, broken, and rebuilt: home servers, network setups, and whatever's currently taking over my desk. Most of these have a video and a full guide to go with them.
Stripped the guts out of old laptops, mounted the drives in a single fanless case, and built a NAS that draws under 15W idle. Full parts list and wiring notes in the guide.
→ read the build guidePi-hole style filtering for the whole house, running on hardware that costs less than a nice dinner. Covers setup, DNS-over-HTTPS, and failover.
→ read the build guideNew battery, SSD swap, a lighter OS, and enough thermal paste to fix a decade of neglect. Currently benchmarking against a modern budget laptop.
→ watch the processFitting a proper 12U rack, switch, and three nodes into a coat closet without cooking the house. Airflow is the whole ballgame here.
→ watch the processNext up: a full walkthrough of setting up your own media server, from hardware picks to remote access without opening ports you'll regret.
→ get notifiedTesting whether a genuinely tight budget can still cut 4K footage without dropping frames. Parts list in progress.
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