u/Legion739

I had a Blackview MP-80 Mini-PC that I removed from its enclosure, it was kind of just chilling on my rack and I wanted a way to mount it properly.

I bought my 3D printer basically just to design and print things for my rack, I first made the light blue part to test it out and see if everything alignes, once I confirmed that I took a 10" rack and modified it by chopping a bit off and adding the MP-80 Mount.

I'm quite happy how it's turned out, thought I'd share.

I had a Blackview MP-80 Mini-PC that I removed from its enclosure, it was kind of just chilling on my rack and I wanted a way to mount it properly.

I bought my 3D printer basically just to design and print things for my rack, I first made the light blue part to test it out and see if everything alignes, once I confirmed that I took a 10" rack and modified it by chopping a bit off and adding the MP-80 Mount.

I'm quite happy how it's turned out, thought I'd share.

Since then I’ve now added networking and a self built 10” rack, I was undecided between MikroTik and UniFi but ended up going UniFI and I’m quite happy.

Building the 2020 Aluminum profile 10” server rack was a lot of fun and I learnt a lot of lessons along the way like:

- Cutting perfectly straight with a hacksaw is a bitch and nearly impossible (or at least for me) would not recommend.

- Buy a table saw or have them pre-cut

- Tapping threads yourself is a lot of fun, and I would recommend doing it yourself, worked perfectly every time.

- Bolt length and head size matters, even 1mm matters (that’s what she said)

It’s jankey I know, but I love it and it’s a lot less Jankey than when everything was just on my desk

Next step for me would be to buy a 3D Printer (Sovol S6 Plus Ace) and print custom racks for everything

Shout out to https://www.motedis.com for the Aluminum parts, they can cut and tap all the parts to your desired length if you don’t want to bother with that, but that’s half the fun (and frustration)

I'm sharing Version 1 of my Homelab from last summer, it's come a bit further now, I'll share updates in a future post.

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With the heatwave in Europe had just installed cooling to keep my HDD’s from heating up.

I know it’s Janky as hell, but I love it. The plan going forward is to buy a 3D Printer so that I can 3D Print a custom 10” rack, and I’ll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system with ESP32 and create a dashboard for it in Home Assistant and sorting out networking.

It’s a work in progress, having a lot of fun learning and adding new things.

The big power supply looking box, is a ODROID-H4 and it's my NAS, running Proxmox and TrueNAS

The lil boxes in the back are Mini-PC's

One running Home Assistant on Bare Metal, the other running Immich and Nextcloud on Proxmox

Vanaf nu zal ik er altijd op letten dat de ramen in de slaapkamer dicht zijn, maar ik kan mijn vriendin niet echt tegenhouden om luidruchtig te zijn, tenzij we stoppen met de dingen die we graag doen, en dat zie ik niet gebeuren.

Ben ik de slechte buur? Of moeten mijn buren zich met hun eigen zaken bemoeien?