🔥 Home Lab Challenge: Show Off Your AI Setup **NEW**

AI is quickly becoming one of the most interesting things happening in the home lab world right now, and I want to see what everyone is building. It's been a while since we have posted a challenge for everyone to try and share progress. This week’s challenge is all about your AI environment, whether that is fully self-hosted in your rack, running on a mini PC cluster, deployed in Kubernetes, or even using hosted AI services with automation around them.

I want to see:

• Ollama setups

• OpenWebUI dashboards

• GPU servers

• AI coding agents

• Local LLM deployments

• Kubernetes AI workloads

• AI automation workflows

• MCP servers

• Vector databases

• AI pipelines

• Hosted AI integrations

• Hybrid cloud + local AI setups

• Anything creative you are experimenting with

You do NOT need an enterprise rack full of GPUs. Even a small mini PC running a local model counts.

📸 Pictures

🖥️ Screenshots

📝 Architecture diagrams

⚙️ Hardware specs

📦 Docker Compose files

☸️ Kubernetes manifests

💡 Lessons learned

🔥 Cool workflows you have built

Bonus points for:

• Power-efficient builds

• Budget setups

• Unique use cases

• Homegrown automation

• AI agents doing real work

• Creative dashboards or monitoring

I especially want to hear:

What has actually been useful versus just hype?

Drop your setups below and let’s see what everyone is building in 2026. These types of interchanges I think are what get us all excited about trying new things in our home labs.

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