Talking about home labs: I own a Bresser Biolux NV [1] and I keep several hay infusions on my desk right now. The results are better than I expected. I can look for hours at multicellular organisms and bacteria are visible. Also I own a spectral sensor [2] for very primitive NIR spectroscopy analysis. But this sensor is not really that impressive. Don't expect too much from this spectral sensor. ;)<p>[1] - <a href="https://www.bresser.de/en/Microscopes-Magnifiers/BRESSER-Biolux-NV-20x-1280x-Microscope-with-HD-USB-camera.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.bresser.de/en/Microscopes-Magnifiers/BRESSER-Bio...</a><p>[2] - <a href="https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14351" rel="nofollow">https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14351</a>
Yes, I talk about my RPi builds in this guide - <a href="https://blog.alexellis.io/self-hosting-kubernetes-on-your-raspberry-pi/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.alexellis.io/self-hosting-kubernetes-on-your-ra...</a><p>I do like to always have 1-2 Intel NUC headless Linux boxes for running containers and K8s.<p>I run my sponsors portal using an RPi3 and an inlets tunnel. The microservices are served with faasd - it gets light traffic, but is basically free. <a href="http://github.com/openfaas/faasd" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/openfaas/faasd</a>
Yes, because most companies won’t let you play around and learn Kubernetes or Hadoop on their enterprise cluster. I have 3 RPi4s with 500GB SSDs running full blown k8s with my own privately hosted Docker repo.
Not quite, but I do have grand plans for one. Both for my main home network along with several sub and separate networks for several projects along with simulated retro and other non-IP networks. Right now I'm sitting around with ISDN phones, switches, routers, old network protocol analyzers and terminals and even an old CMTS!
yes - it was for testing OpenStack setups at home (simulating multiple clusters), and general services. But I'm doing more cloud stuff now, so its mostly turned off. I had way too much gear :-P<p>1 IBM half rack<p>8 Dell blades<p>8 HP blades<p>3 x 24 port managed switches (2 for rack, 1 for house)<p>3 x Odroid H2s<p>3 x windows desktops (games, and ssh to servers)<p>? x laptops (tons of old laptops )<p>? x tablets (ipad/android most used is a lenovo yoga tab.)<p>2 3d printers<p>1 gpu miner (Now doing folding@home covid stuff)<p>I think I might have a hoarding problem :-P<p>edit: fix formating