Rack gear,
without the rack tax.
A 10" server cabinet designed around a simple, riveted aluminium frame — standard EIA-310 mounting spacing throughout, so any rack-eared gear fits, whatever the parts end up being underneath.
Homerack R1
One case, a dozen builds
Homerack doesn't come with any of this — it's just the case. 10U (or 5U) of standard rack space for whatever you rack inside it, so you can stop paying for things you can run yourself.
Local AI inference
Run open-weight models yourself with Ollama or llama.cpp — coding help, chat, or RAG over your own documents, with nothing metered per token and nothing leaving the house.
Your own drive
A NAS with real RAID — TrueNAS or OpenMediaVault — backed up on your terms instead of a subscription you renew every year.
Plex, on your terms
The movies, shows, and music you already own — streamed to every TV and phone in the house, no monthly fee attached.
Websites & a git server
A portfolio site, a Gitea instance, a staging environment for client work — reachable from anywhere, controlled by no one else.
Home automation hub
Home Assistant doesn't need the cloud to turn the lights on — a rack unit is a steadier home for it than a drawer under the router.
Network utilities
Pi-hole, WireGuard, a reverse proxy — the unglamorous infrastructure that makes everything else on the network feel faster and safer.
Designed to be filled, not just built
A rack is only as useful as what slides into it. These modules are purpose-built for this cabinet's 222mm clear bay — and any 10", U-height 3D-printed unit will fit alongside them.
ITX-2U — compute node
Mini-ITX board plus a flex-ATX PSU — sized around a Ryzen AI Max-class SoC for running local LLMs without the case sitting exposed on a desk.
Download .3mf · 0.40 MB2U-NAS — hot-swap storage
A hot-swap drive bay sized for a real NAS build — pull or replace a disk without powering anything down.
Download .stl · 5.43 MBNode-1U — Tiny PC sled
A mounting sled for Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny-class PCs (M920Q and similar) — turns a shelf of loose mini PCs into one rack unit each.
Download .3mf · 0.20 MBSwitch-1U — network switch mount
A clean 1U home for a small managed or unmanaged switch, instead of it dangling off a shelf bracket behind the router.
Download .3mf · 0.02 MBNUC + SSD cage
Mounts a NUC alongside an external SSD cage — compact compute with its own directly-attached storage, no cable draped across the desk.
Download .3mf · 0.09 MB...and anything else
The bay is a plain 222mm-wide, U-height opening — any 10" 3D-printed module built to that spec slides in the same way these do.
Sleek enough for the office, quiet enough for the living room
Same cabinet, different mood depending on the finish. Pick a room — it'll swap the finish on the blueprint above to match.
At home behind a monitor
Sits next to a monitor arm without stealing desk space. Vented sides keep small fans from working overtime, so it stays quiet enough to sit in earshot all day.
Two heights, one part system
Same 312×312mm footprint, same welded frame, same mounting standard — R.5 is just R1 with the height parameter halved.
Homerack R1
Homerack R.5
Would this be worth building?
This is still a concept. If you'd actually want one, or you'd want it different, this is genuinely useful to know before anything gets fabricated.
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