hw/homelab · node/01
One small box runs all of it.
A Raspberry Pi 5 in an aluminium case. Every self-hosted project, the home lab and the smart home live on this one board. Scroll to take it apart.
spechw/homelab/spec
Spec sheet
The same box, as a table. The model above is hand-built from primitives in three.js — close to the real thing, not to scale.
- board
- Raspberry Pi 5 — 16 GB
- soc
- Broadcom BCM2712 · 4× Cortex-A76 @ 2.4 GHz
- memory
- 16 GB LPDDR4X
- storage
- 1 TB NVMe SSD (boot + data) · 1 TB external SSD (backups)
- case
- Argon NEO, passively cooled
- radio
- SONOFF ZBDongle-E, Zigbee 3.0
- os
- Raspberry Pi OS Lite, headless
- network
- Gigabit Ethernet · Tailscale