Projects

I've had a little homelab for decades and I've been using Proxmox for many years now. I had a cluster, but I wanted to rebuild it so I migrated everything to a standalone server and then everything paused there. I want to pick up on that project, but this time I want to document it along the way.

Websites don't appear overnight. Certainly not good ones. They take planning and organisation. This will hopefully serve as the hub to those plans.

My cats love going out onto my balcony but I don't always love having the door open. When it's -5 °C outside and they are clamouring to get outside, I need a way to appease them. Cat owners know what I'm talking about. Anyway, those patio door inserts for a door my size on Amazon are like $150+. I have a bunch of boxes from moving and big thing of PVA glue. I think I can make something durable enough without spending very much money.

I love Google, I do. But we live in a world where our data is the most precious commodity and Google has all of mine. Pictures, email, calendars, smart home integrations, passwords, documents, bookmarks, and the list goes on. I want to see what I can self-host, what I can't (e-mail), and then make a disaster recovery plan BEFORE doing any of it. Not to mention the fact that I don't want to pay Google when I can probably manage my pictures and file access myself. It's definitely going to be a lot of work.

My portable washer had stopped both agitating and spinning. My first assumption was the motor, capacitor, or belt had failed. I removed the back panel, tested the capacitor, and ordered some WAGO connectors for more testing. Upon reinstalling the capacitor and retesting the washer, I could hear the motor whining like it didn't have the torque to turn the drum, however the belt and motor were all in good shape. That's when I checked the drum.

By default, Stable Diffusion only works with CUDA 3.7 and above. If this project is successful, we will be able to run Stable Diffusion on an NVIDIA graphics card that only supports CUDA 3.5. Even using older graphics hardware is faster than CPU-only image generation.

The fan controller I bought from Amazon works, but I hate it's fan curves. What it needs is an over-engineered PID controller. In this project we'll be building a fan controller for my NVIDIA Tesla K20x using ESPHome.