If you’re building a homelab rig, you could just use off-the-shelf hardware in standard cases and slap it all in a rack like ...
What do you get when you take 8,192 CH570 MCUs, put them on custom PCBs, and write firmware for this interconnected gaggle of cores? In the case of [bitluni]’s project, you get something that’s ...
These are the projects I recommend building instead of just buying something off the shelf.