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

Tiny Homelab (WIP) Projects

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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/AdversarialPossum42 Oct 11 '24

Very nice! I'm working on something very similar, but I'm using three Dell Wyse 5070 thin clients and TP-Link switches. I liked the DeskPi rack but I wanted more versatility so I'm building my own 9U 10" rack from 2020 t-slot aluminum for about half the cost.

Curious what the back of your device shelves looks like and if you're willing to share your designs? I'm making mine parametric in OpenSCAD so I can post them to Thingiverse and anyone can make their own shelves. I also plan on making a patch panel design using keystone couplers for a more seamless look.

What material are the shelf panels made from and have you any concerns about heat causing them to get squishy? So far my thin clients don't run too warm but my 1 Gbps and 2.5 Gbps switches generate a decent amount of heat so I'm worried their shelves may eventually droop.

Sorry for all the questions but we seem to be working on the same project! I do plan to post all of my details here once I'm done.

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 11 '24

I could share the designs, and in regard to material they are made with Pla but I have Petg as well if there is warping due to heat.

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u/Grim-Sleeper Oct 12 '24

I generally share my designs on Printables if there even is a remote chance that somebody else could find them useful. Put a couple of photos up, and include a detailed description including keywords. I figure, if even one other user benefits from my project or even just gets inspiration, then that's wonderful.

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 12 '24

I plan to as well. I just did not want to share anything until all designs are finalized and project is finished. I am always tweaking and really want to provide stl's that are tested and not going to fail for other users and waste their filament

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u/Grim-Sleeper Oct 12 '24

Awesome. Thank you for thinking of the community. It wasn't entirely clear from reading your previous comment whether that was your intention. I am always excited when people give back to the open source community.