#hardware

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Building a Consumer-Parts Homelab Server Cleberg's homelab writeup — ditching a loud used enterprise box for a quiet consumer-parts 4U build, and the backwards fan that cooked the drives
Hold on to Your Hardware AI data centers are eating global DRAM/NAND/HDD supply, consumer hardware becoming scarce and expensive
Marius (マリウス.com) Marius's personal blog on self-hosting, OpenBSD, GrapheneOS, hardware longevity, and the politics of consumer computing
Retro Catalog Curated database of retro gaming handhelds and emulator-target games, built by Jipsony as a buyer's guide for the modern Anbernic/Miyoo/Retroid ecosystem
Turning an e-reader into a network printer Nishant Joshi makes an Xteink X3 show up in the macOS print dialog by speaking IPP, and fits a 300 dpi page into 400 KB of RAM
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Valve published .STP/.STL shell-topology and engineering diagrams for the Steam Controller and Puck under non-commercial Creative Commons; commercial accessory makers must contact Valve directly

diy-cnc-machine Full build guide, STL/OBJ, and Fusion 360 files to make a large 3D-printed CNC router from scratch
Free Ink Open e-reader stack — CrossPoint firmware for Xteink devices, a hardware-independent e-paper firmware SDK, and de-link, a $60 hand-solderable ESP32-S3 reader board
local-llm (jamesob) Build guide and configs for a 4x RTX PRO 6000 local inference rig, including PCIe switch tuning

Fault-Tolerant Design Dubrova's graduate intro to failure modes, redundancy and reliability metrics, hardware-first