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A very similar economical DIY NAS build as last year, featuring TrueNAS SCALE, a Gigabyte B450 Aorus M motherboard, 16GB DDR4 RAM, and an Antec VSK3000 Elite case.

I experiment with Orturs rotary tool, the YRR 2.0 Rotary Roller and engrave things into cylindrical objects.

I set up and use the Ortur Aufero Laser 2 for the very first time and share my thoughts on the experience.

...that I want to make it even easier for other Home Assistantusers to enhance their own home automation like I have!

I share my experience as I implement presence detection using ESPresense's base stations and Home Assistant.

I jumped on the TrueNAS SCALE bandwagon with one of its first beta releases. As I used TrueNAS SCALE on my NAS at home, I shared my experience as an early adopter.

I rebuilt my on DIY NAS in an awesome 3D-printed case (the MK735) featuring TrueNAS SCALE, a Supermicro X11SDV-4C-TLN2 motherboard, an Intel Xeon D-2123IT CPU, 64GB ECC DDR4 RAM, a pair of Crucial MX500 1TB SSDs, and more!

Working through a couple neat open source hardware and software projects for creating your own drone racing timer.

My discovery of Tailscale inspired me to finally self-host my own cloud storage using NextCloud.