Articles Tagged “Homelab”
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Asus NUC 14 Essential Fanless: Silent Mini PC Built for 24/7
The Asus NUC 14 Essential Fanless packs Intel N100, N150 or N250 chips, 2.5GbE and triple 4K output into a silent 0.74L chassis built for 24/7 use.
Home Assistant Hardware Guide: Green vs Pi 5 vs Mini PC
Choosing Home Assistant hardware in 2026? Compare the $199 Home Assistant Green, Raspberry Pi 5 and N150 mini PCs, plus Zigbee, Thread and Z-Wave radios.
IP KVM Buying Guide: How to Pick One for Your Homelab
Our IP KVM buying guide compares options from $39 to $219, covering capture resolution, virtual media, ATX power control and the safest way to connect.
Local LLMs on a GPU-Less 14-Year-Old Server
A $600 secondhand Dell PowerEdge R720 with 348 GB of DDR3 and no GPU at all runs flagship open models at roughly four tokens per second.
Minisforum S5 Fits 40TB of NVMe in a Fanless NAS
The Minisforum S5 is an all-flash fanless NAS with five NVMe slots, 40TB capacity, 10GbE and a Wildcat Lake Core 3 304, arriving around mid-October.
JetKVM Mini Cuts IP KVM Cost to $39 With ESP32-P4X
JetKVM Mini drops Linux for FreeRTOS on an ESP32-P4X, landing a 42mm IP KVM with HDMI capture and WebRTC streaming at $39, or $33 in a 3-pack.
Radxa Linkr Packs a Full IP KVM Into a USB Stick
The $59 Radxa Linkr is a 70mm IP KVM with 2K HDMI capture, Wi-Fi 6, Tailscale support and a 1 TOPS NPU — remote BIOS access in a thumb-drive body.
Openterface KeyMod Turns Your Phone Into a Keyboard
The $42 Openterface KeyMod turns a phone into a USB keyboard, mouse, gamepad, or SSH terminal for any PC, server, or Raspberry Pi board, even at the BIOS.
USBridge-KVM 2.0 Brings BIOS Access Over SSH
The $219 USBridge-KVM 2.0 is an open-source IP-KVM built on a Radxa Zero 3W that turns graphical BIOS screens into text you can read over SSH.
Waveshare PiRack-M6F Racks Six Raspberry Pis in 2U
Waveshare's PiRack-M6F holds six Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 boards in a 10-inch 2U rack and moves every port to the front, starting at $69.99 direct.
Raspberry Pi Power Guide: PSU, PoE, and UPS Options
A practical Raspberry Pi power guide covering the 27W USB-C PD supply, the 600mA USB limit, PoE+ HATs, battery UPS boards, and solar deployments.
MINISFORUM M2 Air-304 Is a $263 Barebone Wildcat Lake PC
The Elite Mini M2 Air-304 is the first barebone Wildcat Lake mini PC at $263, with a 15 TOPS NPU, USB4, dual 2.5GbE, and a 64GB DDR5 SO-DIMM slot.
Raspberry Pi vs Mini PC: Picking a 2026 Home Server
Memory prices reshaped this choice in 2026. Here is how a Raspberry Pi 5 and a 6W mini PC compare on cost, power, and what they can actually run.
Antmicro Open-Sources a Thunderbolt Dual 10GbE Card
Antmicro released the full KiCad files for a Thunderbolt 3 to dual 10GbE adapter under Apache 2.0, measured at 9.4 Gbps while drawing under 9 watts.
PICOTTY Turns Pi Picos Into a Networked Serial Console
PICOTTY pairs a Pi Zero 2 W hub with Ethernet-connected Pico nodes to give four headless machines a browser-based serial console for under $100.
Proxmox VE 9.2 Brings Official Arm64 Virtualization
Proxmox VE 9.2 adds official 64-bit Arm builds, with full support for NVIDIA Grace and Vera platforms and best-effort support for UEFI Armv8-A hardware.
AI Accelerator Sticks Compared: Hailo, Coral, Jetson
A practical guide to bolting AI acceleration onto hardware you already own — Hailo-8L at $70, Coral USB at 4 TOPS, and when a Jetson is the better buy.
NanoPi R28S Puts Dual GbE and Wi-Fi 6 in a $20 SBC
FriendlyELEC's NanoPi R28S is a 49.5mm dual gigabit Ethernet router SBC with Wi-Fi 6, RK3528A silicon, and the company's first USB-C console port, from $20.
ESP-KVM Turns an ESP32-P4 Board Into a $45 IP KVM
ESP-KVM is an open-source IP KVM built from a $20 ESP32-P4 board and an HDMI capture adapter, delivering 20 fps MJPEG remote control for about $45.
Raspberry Pi Storage Guide: microSD vs eMMC vs NVMe
A practical 2026 guide to SBC storage: NVMe hits 800+ MB/s random reads versus 42 MB/s on microSD. Pick the right one for your Raspberry Pi build.
Beelink ME Pro 2 Hybrid NAS Adds 10GbE and Thunderbolt
Beelink's $619 ME Pro 2 pairs Intel's Wildcat Lake Core 3 304 with 10GbE, dual Thunderbolt 4, and 24 TOPS of on-board AI compute, shipping in August.
Raspberry Pi LoRa Boards: A Long-Range Radio Guide
A buyer's guide to Raspberry Pi LoRa boards and long-range 4G HATs, from a 19 USD Waveshare SX1262 node module to a 149 euros LoRaWAN concentrator.
OpenInfrared Point: An Open Local ESP32-S3 Remote Hub
The OpenInfrared Point pairs an ESP32-S3 with IR, NFC and audio streaming, running fully local. Kickstarter early-bird pricing starts at 149 USD.
Beelink EQi Brings 10GbE Networking to a $509 Mini PC
Beelink's EQi mini PC pairs Intel's new 5-core Wildcat Lake chip with 10GbE and dual Thunderbolt 4, starting at $509 — a first at this price.
MINISFORUM MS-03 Packs Panther Lake and a GPU Slot
The MINISFORUM MS-03 mini PC pairs Intel Panther Lake, 128GB DDR5, dual 10GbE SFP+, and a PCIe x16 slot for a low-profile GPU — a homelab dream box.
KKSB Rack Panels Tidy Your Raspberry Pi Cluster
KKSB's new 10-inch and 19-inch rack panels mount up to 10 Raspberry Pis per shelf, with room for HATs and active coolers in a homelab rack.
This Kubernetes Homelab Hides Modern Compute Inside Retro Linksys Cases
Justin Garrison retrofitted a modern Raspberry Pi and mini-PC Kubernetes cluster into vintage early-2000s Linksys router cases — a nostalgic, fully working homelab.
Sipeed NanoKVM-Go Is an AI-Native 4K USB-C KVM With MCP
The Sipeed NanoKVM-Go is a tiny 4K USB-C KVM built on the Axera AX630C with a 3.2 TOPS NPU, exposing every KVM function as an MCP server for AI agents. From $59.
AweSun's $69 Cloud KVM Q1 Brings BIOS-Level Remote Access to Any PC
The $69 AweSun Cloud KVM Q1 is a pocket-sized KVM-over-IP that gives you BIOS-level remote access to a headless PC or home server from anywhere.
Radxa Taco V1.61 Turns the Raspberry Pi CM5 Into a Five-Drive NAS for Around $65
Radxa's updated Taco V1.61 carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 packs five SATA ports, dual Ethernet, NVMe, and RAID support into a 114×85mm footprint.
Milk-V Jupiter 2 Is the World's First RVA23-Compliant RISC-V SBC With 60 TOPS AI Acceleration
Milk-V's Jupiter 2 opens pre-orders with RVA23 compliance, a SpacemiT K3 octa-core RISC-V CPU, 60 TOPS on-chip AI acceleration, 10GbE, and up to 32GB LPDDR5 from $199.
FriendlyELEC's NanoPi NEO3 Plus Packs Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0 Into a 48mm SBC for Just $24
The new NEO3 Plus upgrades to a Rockchip RK3528A at 2.0 GHz, adds eMMC support and RTC battery, and runs Debian 13, Ubuntu 24.04, and Proxmox VE out of the box.
The Morefine Nexus N1 Is a Compact NAS That Doubles as an AI Workstation — Complete With a Desktop GPU Slot
Morefine's Nexus N1 pairs an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8845HS with four hot-swap drive bays, triple NVMe, and a full-length PCIe x16 slot for desktop GPUs.
The EXAVIZ Cruiser Turns a Raspberry Pi CM5 Into a 9-Port PoE Networking Powerhouse
This $139 mini-ITX carrier board for the Raspberry Pi CM5 packs nine Ethernet ports, dual SATA, NVMe, and Zigbee for serious homelab builds.