Reorganizing lab 7.

I reached a milestone in my lab. I can state now that the project I started regarding my tables are finished. Added a shelf, lighting zillions of power distributors, reinforced the tables with additional cross bars at the back, and many more.

From now on, other projects are coming. Still not electronics. Now I'll focus on the IT infrastructure and on the top of it regaining the 3D printing capability. Additional posts on the way.

Now, here are few pictures about the result.

Project - Network

The second stage of rebuilding my lab is to have a solid Ethernet and Wi-Fi network.

On this road I bought a few network devices: used HP 2530 series PoE switches.

Built a setup with VLANs separating the home, the planed home automation, guest, etc. networks.

Had some fight with my Mikrotik router to properly support VLANs (still just barely understand its approach of VLAN settings).

I also had Wi-Fi routers, access points (TP-Link and Ubiquiti) laying around. All of them finally converted to OpenWRT.

And the biggest relive that my long hated HP 1920-24G switch also turned to an OpenWRT device (I guess this is a leftover from the 3Com acquisition by HP and the interface is far from the familiar convenient HP UIs):

This correcting my mistake of buying it.

So, most of the logical network setup of my flat and lab is done, just the Multi-SSID Wi-Fi setup and the client device reorganization is left.

 

Reorganizing lab 6.

The project of rebuilding my tables are finished.

I still try to figure out what goes where but it is not as messy it was a few days ago.

I think it is time for picking a new project while still moving my stuff.