Projects

Things I’ve built

Side projects, mostly self-hosting and hardware. A couple of them are running right now, including the one serving this page.

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RunningHomelab

The Pi cluster

Three single-board computers on a 3D-printed 1U panel in a 10-inch rack. It hosts this website and a chat front-end for the local AI running on my desktop.

Nodes: Raspberry Pi 5 · Libre Computer Le Potato (AML-S905X-CC) · Raspberry Pi 4B
Mount: Custom 1U flat panel, three bays, printed on a Bambu Lab P1S
Serves: This site (Caddy) · Open WebUI → Ollama on my desktop

Build notes

I skipped the official Pi cases and tried a blade-style chassis first, with each board in a vertical caddy (3U, then 2U). It was fiddly to print and service, so I went back to a single flat 1U panel with all three boards side by side: Pi 5, Le Potato, Pi 4B.

This website is written in Markdown, built into static HTML with a small Python script, and served by Caddy.

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DoneHardware mod

The SSD + Bluetooth iPod

A classic click-wheel iPod brought up to date. The spinning hard drive is swapped for solid-state storage, it has a bigger battery, and Bluetooth so it works with wireless headphones.

Base: [iPod model / generation]
Storage: SSD in place of the original hard drive · [capacity, adapter used]
Battery: Higher-capacity replacement · [mAh]
Wireless: Bluetooth audio · [module / codec]

Build notes

Solid-state storage gives more room than the original drive, has no moving parts to fail, and draws much less power. Combined with the bigger battery, that means far longer playback.

[Add: how you opened it, which adapter and Bluetooth board you used, how you fit it all in the case, and the battery life you got.]

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In progressAI · self-hosted

A fully local AI assistant

A chatbot and coding agent that runs entirely on my own hardware, with no cloud and no data leaving the house. The longer-term goal is an agent that can build CAD parts and check its own work.

Model: Qwen3-Coder 30B via Ollama
GPU box: Core i7-14700K · RTX 3080 10 GB · 32 GB DDR4
Front ends: Open WebUI on the Pi cluster · Cline for coding tasks

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RunningNetworking · privacy

Private home network

A home server that blocks ads and trackers for every device on the network, resolves DNS itself instead of asking a big provider, and lets me get back in securely from anywhere.

DNS: Pi-hole + Unbound (recursive resolver)
Remote access: WireGuard VPN
Storage: Synology 2-bay NAS, used without Synology’s cloud services, with Hyper Backup between drives

Build notes

There’s a step-by-step write-up in the how-to guides.

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OngoingFabrication

3D printing

Functional parts, mostly. Rack mounts, brackets, and enclosures for the other projects on this page.

Printer: Bambu Lab P1S with AMS
Workflow: Model in Onshape → slice in Bambu Studio → print over the network