We built our Home Lab to do projects to help us to learn about modern data centers and IT technology. Here are some Home Lab projects that we are planning to do.

Raspberry Pi Home Lab Project

We provide many training presentations for the Amateur Radio community. We are working on a project to build a simple, low-power Home Server and NAS device using a Raspberry Pi 4.

Artificial Intelligence

We are experimenting with Artificial Intelligence tools. We are approaching this in a way that allows us to run things locally on our own systems. We want to experiment with Generative AI using Large Language Models for text and image generation.

We have already begun our AI journey. Want to see what we are doing so far? Check out our AI Category or try the AI menu above.

Home Automation

We plan to set up Home Assistant to manage our smart devices, Home Lab, and Media Services.

Replace PCs with VMs and Thin Clients

Currently, we run quite a few computers in our home. We plan to replace some machines with VMs and access them via thin clients and web browsers.

Ansible Playbooks and Semaphore

We have done some work with Ansible related to configuring Linux hosts. We plan to create playbooks to update our systems, set up VMs, and more. We also want to explore Ansible Semaphore to improve the management and automation of our Ansible playbooks.

The following video covers Ansible Semaphore –

Set up and Application of Ansible Semaphore

Containers, Containers, Containers

There are lots of cool applications and services that can run in Docker or LXC containers. We will continue to look for opportunities to try new containers and add more services to our Home Lab.

Check back again soon for more on our Home Lab projects.