Project mini-shack
An interesting trend is occurring in home labs and networking. It is epitomized in Jeff Geerlings’ Project mini-rack, which is mainly built around the 10-inch rack mount “standard.” Between commercial and 3d printed racks and accessories, we have a base for my parallel project:
Project mini-shack!mini-shack front viewThis was also inspired by my purchase of the zBitx radio, which compresses this into a single box you can take anywhere!
The zBitx can be used with just the touch screen, but there is so much more. Today, I set up my radio at home while I traveled to visit family. At my brother’s house, I used his Internet service to connect to my Tailscale network and thus directly to my radio. The following video shows the connection process and some playing around on my iPad operating the radio!
With the Tailscale system, I have a DNS name and the IP address on the extended network.
Over the past couple of years, a little Amateur Radio miracle has happened right before our eyes. TWICE!
I want you all to slow down and think about what has been built here. A one-man show has had the vision and has merged a computer front end with an SDR-based radio in a single box. The core software and hardware were developed, and the radios are in production and shipped to customers worldwide!