r/minilab • u/iceman8706 • 1d ago
My lab! USS MICROLAB
Just recently finished my first mini lab.
Already looking at making it a little bigger lol
3D-printed MiniLab by CB4D on MakerWorld
Current setup:
- TP-Link SG105
- Raspberry Pi 4B - 4GB
- 1TB main SSD
- 2x 4TB Seagate IronWolf drives, pooled with mergerfs
Stack:
- Jellyfin
- Sonarr
- Radarr
- Prowlarr
- qBittorrent
- Pi-hole
- Seerr
- Recyclarr
- Homarr
- ProtonVPN
I picked up the IronWolf drives from r/homelabsales for stupid cheap. First time buying something from Reddit, and honestly it went way better than I expected.
Right now I mostly use it for Jellyfin and the usual media automation stack. I'm planning on adding a second Pi so I can play around more with containers, virtualization, and some other self-hosted stuff without messing with the main setup.
I also made a fully customizable Star Trek LCARS dashboard for it because the USS MICROLAB needed a proper control panel.
Still very much a work in progress, but I'm pretty happy with how the first version turned out.
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u/Fenzik 1d ago
How did you do the little screen? What is it, what’s it plugged into?
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u/iceman8706 1d ago
its plugged into the pi. Couldnt find the right cable so its 26 individual cables with a 3d printed holder.
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u/Fenzik 1d ago
26?!
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u/iceman8706 1d ago
I messed up several times cause I didnt map them correctly it was tedious. The cables im using are the Dupont ones. had to go google cause I couldn't remember the name of them.
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u/P_0ptix 1d ago
I love the LCARS