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Mica Voss

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MICA VOSS

About

A workshop for people who want to own their machines.

Mica Voss builds, takes apart and explains the tech you can run yourself: home labs and small racks, networking, electronics and DIY builds, self-hosting and privacy, and honest reviews of the gear in between.

Build guides show every step on real hardware. Reviews say what a device cannot do as plainly as what it can.

  • 01Every number on screen is measured, or comes from the maker's own documentation.
  • 02The limits get said as plainly as the strengths.
  • 03Real hardware, real installs. No sponsored opinions on this page.

The first series

MINIRACK A whole home lab, ten inches wide.

A firewall, a hypervisor, a NAS, a handful of Raspberry Pis and one switch, all in a 10-inch frame. The main film shows the whole build, including what broke. The detail videos take one piece at a time.

MINIRACK 1: Full Home Lab in a 10-Inch Rack (and What Broke) MINIRACK 2: A Whole Server Room, 10 Inches Wide MINIRACK 3: Adding 10G to a Tiny Lenovo M920q MINIRACK 4: Whole-House Ad Blocking with AdGuard MINIRACK 5: Your First Proxmox Home Lab in One Weekend MINIRACK 6: 18 Free Apps to Replace the Cloud

Contact

Say hello.

Questions about a build, a correction, a device worth a review, or an idea for a video. Every message gets read.

Your message is only used to answer you. No newsletter, no tracking, no third parties.

One more thing

Prove that you are worth the connection.

Plug the cables to submit your message.

Cable 1 of 3: plug it into port 12.

Tap or click each port in turn. Keyboard: Tab to it, then Enter. Or drag the plug.