Homelab Gets Linksys Themed Aesthetic

If you’re building a homelab rig, you could just use off-the-shelf hardware in standard cases and slap it all in a rack like the normies do. Or, you could follow the example of [Justin Garrison] and build a more oddball setup. This particular homelab is, at its heart, built from familiar components. There are two Raspberry Pi 5s, two Raspberry Pi 4s, a GMKtec NucBox M6 Mini with an ASUS GeForce RT 2060 GPU, a LattePanda IOTA, an NVidia DGX Spark, and an HP Z4 G4 mini PC. These machines are all laced together with a TP-Link LS108GB PoE switch. [Justin] has the mini PC running the control plane components, with the rig as a whole running Talos and Kubernetes workloads. What makes this build particularly appealing, though, is the aesthetics of the rig. [Justin] documents how he hacked this hardware to fit into a bunch of old Linksys router cases, which provides a pleasant early 2000s look to the build. This included a bit of hackery to get status LEDs flickering as they should be. [Justin] also took the time to make the power buttons accessible. If you want to stunt on your friends with a rad homelab, you either have to go for maximum power, or maximum style. This build would be the latter. Video after the break. I didn’t watch the video but I don’t get it. Is it a bunch of R-Pis and a x86 mini-PC stuffed into some fugly old router cases? Why? Might as well stare at the rubbish bin. I didn’t read your comment but I don’t get it. Why so negative? Might as well not comment and just go on with your life. What else am I supposed to do while sitting on a throne and struggling with pushing out that last bit of poo which annoyingly decided to turtle head itself. buy a bidet I’m 30 seconds into the video and he said “I enjoy building random things out of random cases.” I can see the appeal. It’s not necessarily “better.” It’s a hobby. For enjoyment. Seems like a good enough reason to me. Good luck with that turd.