Junk-box local AI server build log:

-Purchased 2 more 2080 Ti GPUs
-Industrial Chassis in hand
-32GB DDR3 in hand
-Mobo+CPU+PSU ordered.

-Intel Core i7-3930K (6 Cores / 12 Threads)
-Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 (LGA 2011 Socket)
-32GB DDR3 (4 x 8GB Sticks, configured for Quad-Channel)
-3 x nVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Blower Edition (11GB each / 33GB Total VRAM)
-Rosewill 80-Gold 1000W Power Supply
-Multiple SATA SSDs (RAID 0)
-Advantech Industrial Chassis

-Operating System: Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS
-Text Generation Frontend: Text Generation WebUI (Oobabooga)
-LLM Engine Backend: ExLlamaV2 (EXL2 model format)
-Image Generation Platform: ComfyUI
-Multi-GPU Orchestration: ComfyUI-MultiGPU (DisTorch 2.0)
-Networking & Remote Access: NetBird VPN (WireGuard)

EDIT: I found a quad 3.5" SATA backplane/rack and modded it in there for a factory fit! That replaced the IDE CDROM that was in there 😆

#LocalAI, #SelfHosted, #Homelab, #BudgetBuild, #ComfyUI, #HardwareHacking

OK so here’s my evil plan for a junk-box local AI server built from ancient DDR3 era hardware and crap I have laying around. I am stacking three blower RTX 2080 Tis for the 33GB of VRAM (I already have one in hand). I scored an Intel Core i7-3930K and X79 motherboard on eBay for ~$100 bucks and I already have 32GB DDR3 RAM that I'll thief from my old FX8350 rig. A 1000W PSU will power it, I'll power limit the GPUs.

This Win10+AMD+Ollama girl will be jumping head first into Linux, Intel, nVidia, GPU stacks, and will run ExLlamaV2 via Oobabooga. For diffusion I am using ComfyUI. Hell I’m even striping junkbox SATA SSDs into a RAID 0 array. Then I'll use NetBird to access my secure solar powered local AI from anywhere. $650 spent; local AI frankenserver coming soon...stay tuned!

#LocalAI, #SelfHosted, #Homelab, #BudgetBuild, #ComfyUI, #HardwareHacking

The IoT/OT Village is back at BSides Brisbane, and founder Josh has fresh iterations of his hardware challenges ready to go: IoT Light Bulb v4, Access Control v4, Rogue Transmitter v4, Custom Protocol v3, and Greybox Challenge v4.

Debuting this year is a brand new one: AntIsocial Engineer v1.

Hardware hacker or curious newcomer, come and have a crack. 4 July, QUT Gardens Point.

#BSidesBrisbane #HardwareHacking #IoT

⚙️ Battle of Saiyan is back — and the community is building something serious

3D-printed chassis, custom electronics, metal spinning blades. A plexiglass arena. And robots that fight until one stops moving.

This is Battle of Saiyan — a community-run antweight combat village coming to RomHack Camp 2026.

Participants can bring their own bot or just come and watch the destruction up close.
Engineering, problem-solving, and a lot of kinetic energy — all in one arena.

Battle of Saiyan is one of the community villages at RomHack Camp 2026 — Oct 2–4 at Flaminio Village, Rome.

👉 https://romhack.io

#RomHack2026 #HardwareHacking #MakerCulture #RobotCombat #Cybersecurity

One Commodore, Five Displays

https://hackaday.com/2026/06/23/one-commodore-five-displays/

#Retrocomputing #HardwareHacking #DIY