14u? Thatās cute.
Was gonna wait until I actually had stuff in it to show off, but I canāt turn down a good rack-measuring contest. 
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With this setup I pretty much lived in VR for 2 years. Worked, Played, Collaborate, Party, minimum 16 hours a day, pretty much as long as I was awake, and many times felt asleep and woke up in VR.
Now I am back working on development for the new releases of your favorite implants! ^^
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Iām confined to a 9x9 space. Wife and kids get the rest of the house. Space is a premium
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ft? thatās a whole master bedroom in Japan lol
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I understand it. I made more space when I saw this on sale though. Saw it in a discount store and had to do a double take when I saw the price tag on it: $90! Had to pay $50 for delivery for it, but it was totally worth it. Previously had a shelf in that corner with random junk, got rid of the junk and now I have a full height/depth server enclosure for $140! 
I donāt think the store knew itās worth, retails for ~$1400. I think they mustāve bought it for cheap off a delivery company that was stuck with it. There was a ādelivery refusedā sticker on it when I got it. It has a few dents in it which explains why it got refused. But nothing a hammer canāt fix.
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I love the faceplates on your Dellās! Did you 3D print them? If so, do you have a link to the STL?
I sure do! They werenāt quite sized right for the systems I had so I had to do some minor surgery on the right of the dell logos (just a few cuts) to remove a few mm of plastic. Could I have edited the model to make it fit? Yes. Did I feel like spending the energy after I already modified 2 of them? not really lol
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If you have the space go for it. Right now Iām surprised I can cram my computer, 3d printer, solder and rework station as well as my clothes dresser in here.
However if I had a full 48u I could probably just buy some server drawers and put my clothes in there. Always liked putting on warm undies from the dryerā¦hmmm.
Wife may kill me but this opens up some options
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And i spoke too soon. Ebay Order was canceled. apparently 10$ shipping was too good to be true.
Awesome! Thanks!
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My daily driver (right side of desk) is an i7-2600 from 2011 running Windows 7 GTX1070, maxed out ram to 20GB, 4x 27"4k monitors and 10gb fiber network. Windows 10 can suck it.
Left side is a dell laptop issued by work that I secretly upgraded the 2nd SSD, maxed out the memory, and added a thunderbolt to SFP+ adapter so it too has 10gb fiber.
The middle monitor runs off a Pi mounted to the back that runs software to display the Unifi cameras.
Rack has a Ubiquiti UDMP, 24 port POE switch and 8 SFP+ switch.
Synology DS1618 NAS drive, maxed out memory, and SFP+ card for 10GB networking running docker containers for Graphana, InfluxDB for power and temp monitoring, as well as NodeRed for home automation. Deconz (Zigbee) is running on bare metal I think.
I have another pi with a power monitoring hat that I never ended up fully installing, so right now it just measures my solar productionā¦
There are two additional Synology NAS drives that I actually donāt use anymore. One of them was an offsite backup for my old job.
Oh and there is a Raspberry Pi 4 with POE hat right above the NAS in a rack mount running PiHole.
The other rack runs the radio stack seen on the extreme right of the desk. It also has a mini-computer for Yaesu Wires-X.
Please donāt rob me.
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I am curious about the state of productivity in VR. I had the original HTCVive, but Iām also not a big gamer. Iāve been waiting for a usable āvirtual desktopā where I can set up 360 deg monitors and actually code on them. Of course Iād have to learn how to type without looking at the keyboard first. lol.
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What we really need is high enough quality hand tracking (using cameras, I donāt want to wear bulky gloves) that you can type on a virtual keyboard in the space. I feel like thatās the real move. Wear a headset, and then make everything else virtual.
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I have this vision of an empty white room with a chair that has a desk that is integrated with the chair so the desk area swings around as you swing the chair so your keyboard an mouse are always in the same spot relative to you. Then you put your headset on and be immersed in the virtual work environment. I need to make this happen before I die. lol.
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I wanted this as well but realized the pixel resolution requires in the vr headset to make this actually useful would need to be so damn highā¦ you canāt have 110Ā° FOV in your headset that only has 4k per eye and expect multiple 1920x1080 screens to render at full res or better when they are all sitting in your FOV. Even looking right at a virtual monitor sitting a good proper distance from you is going to cause some eye strain and less than stellar resolution as it translates to the pixels in your vr headset.
Fine for watching movies on your virtual monitor, but not for doing actual work.
I guess 8k per eye might get you thereā¦ maybe. Perhaps the quest 5 or apple headset 3 will get there eventually.
I envy you guys for having your own home lab. The feeling of DIY repair is really super awesome!!
Donāt envy, build.
Seriously, just a card table and some screwdrivers is a good place to start.
Scrounge an old PC, and keep your eye out for cheap tools and youāre well on your way.
NOBODY just builds an awesome shop right away.
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What @ODaily said. A homelab starts with whatever you get your hands on. A lot of people get started with a raspberry pi or an old laptop. Me personally it was a old Pentium 4 PC someone tossed to the curb. I pulled it apart and used the hard drive out of a dead laptop to get it running.
You could also ask around and see if anyone you know has a computer theyāre not using to give or sell to you. The lesson here is that the main point of a homelab isnāt about the hardware as much as the principle. A homelab exists to help you learn, develop, and grow.
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I am striving towards an organized homelab but I may need a bigger home. Currently my work desk is my testing grounds while I work my day to day job.
But Arduino and raspberry pi are abundant and cheap and I use them very frequently. Although I run into issues all the time because one just canāt do it, like pi zeros have 3v limit on gpio, and Arduino nano has 5v limits but only like 2k of RAM. Then esp32 and 8266 are tons of fun but build quality is shit.
Then python is another beast when you get into circuit python installsā¦
But regardless itās fun to learn and play with basic projects and cost of entry is very low.
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