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Anycubic Kobra S1: A Strong Contender in High-Speed 3D Printing
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Anycubic Kobra S1
The Anycubic Kobra S1 is one of the newest entrants in the high-speed CoreXY 3D printer market, offering fast printing speeds, automatic bed leveling, and an integrated AI-powered camera. While much of the attention has been on the Kobra S1 Combo, which includes the ACE Pro multi-material system, I purchased the standalone Kobra S1—without the ACE Pro—and will be providing insight into its real-world performance, build quality, and software ecosystem.
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Daisy-Chaining ezcoo HDMI Switches with BliKVM and PiKVM
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Setting up the BliKVM V3 Hat with Daisy-chained ezcoo switches
This past Christmas, I received a BliKVM V3 HAT from a family member, and it has quickly become a pivotal tool in managing my homelab. My homelab, neatly tucked away in the basement inside a 10" Mini Rack , houses 10 servers: 5 Raspberry Pi’s and 5 1L TinyMiniMicro PCs. I wanted an efficient way to remotely install OSes and manage these devices without constantly heading downstairs.
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Is Kubernetes Good for a Homelab?
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Is Kubernetes Good for a Homelab?
The question of whether Kubernetes is suitable for a homelab setup has been circulating for a while, and it’s one that recently caught my attention after watching Raid Owl’s video on Docker Swarm. In the video, he highlights Kubernetes’ complexity and suggests it might be overkill for most homelab enthusiasts. As someone who’s been working with Kubernetes clusters for over a decade, I found this perspective interesting—and it prompted me to reflect on whether Kubernetes really is too complex for home use.
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Shrinking My Homelab: Migrating to the DeskPi RackMate
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Why Downsize?
If you run a homelab, you know the struggle—space, heat, noise, electrical and just the sheer sprawl of hardware. I’ve transitioned my Homelab from multiple old laptops, various cloud platforms, full rack servers, to raspberry pi farms. I have been running an enclosed 19" 24U rack for a couple years now, and the current hardware is detailed below. After seeing Project Mini Rack by Jeff Geerling, I started reconsidering the setup. My original plan was an 8U and a 4U DeskPi RackMate (T0/T1) for a combined 12U, but the 8U sold out as I was ordering so I pivoted and picked up three 4U units instead.