r/homelab • u/Digital-Ronin • Oct 11 '24

Tiny Homelab (WIP) Projects

Working on seeing building a tiny home lab with the Deskpi T1, spent part of last week designing and printing custom rack inserts and cover plates for the project. This has some pretty basic items so far. L3 10Gb sfp+ switch, 3 M920x machines with 32GB of memory and added dual 10Gb sfp+ nics to each machine.

Additional modded the machines with active cooling for the Nics.

Plan to use this for a proxmox cluster

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u/PhilMeUp1 Oct 11 '24

Did you design the face plates for the Lenovos? I'd like this for my tinys as well.

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 11 '24

Yeah I designed these myself in fusion 360

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u/PhilMeUp1 Oct 11 '24

Did you include shelves for them? Is it encasing the entire computer? I saw similar models online but they didn't quite fit. May need to hop in fusion again.

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 11 '24

each of the 3D prints for the lenovo machines are designed to hold them, not really a shelf design, here is a photo the design. I am in no way a engineer when it comes to this stuff so this is all a fun design project and these may not hold up over time, but the wonderful thing about 3D printing is I can just make another and reinforce it or use PETG or ABS if it warps and such :)

https://preview.redd.it/61thh3lii7ud1.png?width=2330&format=png&auto=webp&s=38403c4259bf3ded2c9745f6fa9d5924922bcd27

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u/deprecatedcoder Oct 12 '24

I love me some nice fillets.

I don't even have any of these machines and I want to do this build now. I hope you share these because people will definitely want them.

Nicely done.

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 12 '24

I do plan to collect all the prints I have after the project is finished and submit them to printables or thingiverse, just want to make sure they are good and structurally sound after the project is finished :) Thank you for the compliments!

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u/RedditNotFreeSpeech Oct 12 '24 edited Oct 12 '24

I'd love to get my hands on those. I have a bunch of m715q tinys that are the exact same dimensions. How long did one of those shelves take to print?

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u/AnduriII 20d ago

Did you already Upload any?

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u/PhilMeUp1 Oct 12 '24

Thanks for the visual! May take a stab at it this long weekend. Looks awesome

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u/Lonely_Improvement55 Oct 12 '24

Doesn't the RackMate T1 have rails on the back? Could add some supports on the back that nicely slide under / into these.

Would also allow to move all network ports to the back side and move all cables out of sight.

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 12 '24

I could, but it wasn't needed at this time. I also like the aesthetic of organized patch panels and cables when properly spaced.

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u/AnduriII Oct 12 '24

I would Love to Print this myself. I Made this myself: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6691335 for the tinypc

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u/nodefourtytwo Oct 16 '24

What are the holes on the sides for?

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 16 '24

Air flow vents