Build, Experiment, and Innovate. Explore hands-on projects and personal homelabs. From server setups to DIY creations, learn how to innovate and experiment with technology at home.
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When building a homelab, noise is a common concern. Enterprise-level servers were never designed to be quiet. For those resourceful enough, you can build a sound proof cabinet. Here is how Technodabbler did it.
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GitHub Actions and Kubernetes streamline web app deployment, letting developers focus on coding. But as projects scale, complexity grows—can automation replace experts, or is specialized knowledge still key?
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Tired of pricey phone bills? VoIP can replace your home phone with a flexible, cost-effective system. With a SIP provider, a digital PBX, and IP phones, you can build your own smart telephony setup!
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After two failed attempts with Grandstream and Cisco, the Yeastar Neogate TA810 finally delivered a reliable FXO gateway for integrating a home phone line with VoIP. A long journey, but worth it!
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A dead charging port left an Nvidia Shield Tablet inaccessible—but with a careful power bypass, I revived it just long enough to recover critical files. A risky but effective last resort!
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Need more storage in your homelab? Learn how the Titanus Disk Shelf project turned a noisy challenge into a quiet, DIY solution - and how anyone can build one too.
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It's not secret that I am a big fan of Ubiquiti hardware. I've already written about their hardware twice in the past. But this latest upgrade to my home network is elegant superfluousness : the Ubiquiti US-8-150W 8 port POE switch. Why buy this? The Ubiquiti US-8-150W
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Having used computers for the last thirty years, I've seen my share of disasters. The biggest impact of these incidents is always data loss : hardware can always be replaced but once data is lost, it is gone. That is why data should always be regularly backup. As such,
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Wifi is difficult to deploy properly and even more difficult to debug. When living in a small apartment, the solution is pretty simple : place a simple wifi router roughly in the middle of the appartement. However, in a large multi-floor house, getting a strong wifi signal in every room can
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Solutions to share the Internet on a network have tremendiously evolved in the last twenty years. My first experience was using Wingate, a software proxy that could act as an Internet gateway. Along with the introduction of Internet broadband came the consumer gateways, such as the iconic Linksys BEFSR41. The
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Looking for a budget-friendly home server? The Dell PowerEdge T20 offers a compact, quiet design with solid performance for file storage and virtualization—especially when snagged at a discount.
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One of the important aspect of Linux is its Open Source nature: everyone is free to contribute and no one "owns" Linux. This creates a great diversity which is both a strength and a weakness for the operating system. Wars over the best "distro" of Linux