My name's Eric and this is my home lab.

My name's Eric and this is my home lab. So this is my network cabinet that you may have already seen. I bought it off of Facebook Marketplace, sanded it, painted it, did all that good stuff. Don't worry, it was just an air wasn't real wood. And then inside it, I put my home lab slash networking rack. So going over it, I got a CyberPower UPS here that everything's connected to. And then this is the GeekPi, I believe, 10-inch mini rack, and I think it's 8U's tall. So starting off at the top, we got the ONT from my fiber provider and then the UniFi Cloud Gateway Fiber, and that goes into the UniFi 2.5 gig 8-port PoE switch. It also has two SFP ports, which is kind of cool. And this is kind of what powers a whole lot of it. Goes into a Keystone patch panel, and then the rest of it is kind of the main powerhouse of my server, I guess you'd call it. So I have the Beelink, I think EQ14 for my main server, and as well as a JetKVM. Below that, I have a Nvidia Jetson Orin Dev Kit for work, and then a HD HomeRun for over-the-air cable streaming, and then just some power supply and everything below. Got my UniFi access point, I think U6 Pro maybe. Whatever it is, I live in an apartment right now, it's single floor, so I can put it here and it covers everything fine, doesn't need to be on the ceiling or anything fancy. And as for what the home server actually does, because I'm sure a lot of you guys probably have those questions, I can self-host a bunch of stuff on it. I have Home Assistant, which is basically a better version of any smart home operating system. I have Actual Budget, which is one of my favorite budgeting apps that I use. I can have an entire media streaming suite with Plex and Jellyfin so I can stream my over-the-air television as well as any movies that I own. And then I can also do photo backups with stuff like Immich. But I am a software engineer, so this is kind of a way for me to also learn stuff outside of work and just tinker and explore. So let's get into the back, because I think it's also some pretty good cable management. So then as for the back, yes we do have airflow. I got the bottom fan pulling air in, top one pulling air out. I got my antennas mounted on the back here and they can just slide up and out when I need to take them off. The coolest part about this is I added these little push-turn buttons that you'd see on a picture frame so that I can go ahead and easily pop this entire back piece off when I need to get access to it, such as right now. Takes just a couple seconds and then boom, the entire back comes off. And that's inside. So as you can tell, pretty clean cable management. Got everything routed through these cable guides and like I said, that's really all of it. Got some more fans up top and down below and the cabling side is nicely tucked away, cable ties to hold everything together. So this is my home lab. Let me know what you think of it and let me know if you have any other questions.