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by nsbk20 hours ago |
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upvoteby tda20 hours ago|
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Was it possible to build it for $60 when you built it though?

As for the idle dray, a lot of PC's have Wake On Lan so you can power it on via a special IP packet. I could't get it to work on mine, so i pus an esp32 based power monitoring plug in front of it, and configured the PC to power on directly when powered. When the power monitoring sees the PC sleeping for some time, it cuts the power. I control the plug via home assistant, so i can switch it on remotely

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upvoteby nsbk20 hours ago|
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No. I bought it for about 150 shipping included from Canada to Spain. I reckon I spent about 300$ in total, the most expensive thing being the 1Tb NVMe.

I don't have an ethernet cable where the box is, so WoL is not an option for me either. I could have used something similar to your approach (very smart, by the way!) but decided to go ESP aiming for the most console-like experience of just grabbing the controller and playing your game

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upvoteby tombardier20 hours ago|
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WoWLAN is a thing. On my motherboard it works so well that it wakes up whenever my phone, laptop or steam deck connect to the WiFi, not just when I actually send the magic packets!
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upvoteby nsbk19 hours ago|
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First time I hear about WoWLAN, thanks! I will check if it can work with my cheap usb Wifi adapter.

Yours seems a bit too eager though! I wouldn't want the thing to start up every time I get home as it turns the projector on, which lowers the projector screen, which blocks the (small) apartment's main entrance when lowered and would make me enter home on my fours ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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upvoteby Krutonium6 hours ago|
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On the other hand if you re-arranged the room, it'd be neat to walk in to everything deploying!
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upvoteby snadal17 hours ago|
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Would you mind to share here or by DM where you ordered items from? I’m in Spain and would like to build something similar.

Thanks

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upvoteby nsbk15 hours ago|
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Hello fellow Spaniard! I just checked the prices and they don't make any sense anymore. A few weeks back you could find the board in Aliexpress for 150eur, now it's twice that price or even more. I got mine fom eBay, didn't think of checking Aliexpress at the time. As per the other parts, I got a quite fancy Metalfish PSU [0] (was on sale when I got it), a power button [1] from Ali (not necessarily needed) and an ESP32 [2] for the remote power on. Then a high pressure fan, I went with Arctic P12 Pro [3]. Wifi and BT adapters whatever works on Linux will work.

[0] https://es.aliexpress.com/item/1005009609601844.html

[1] https://es.aliexpress.com/item/1005011847734240.html

[2] https://es.aliexpress.com/item/1005007479144456.html

[3] https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0DJDC74BP?th=1

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upvoteby snadal14 hours ago|
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Ouch! Thank you for checking it! It’s always nice to find Spanish people here :D
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upvoteby bpye12 hours ago|
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Are there DP-HDMI adapters that work with HD audio bitstreaming and VRR? Different use case, but I've not had much luck finding good options.
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upvoteby jauntywundrkind16 hours ago|
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I got one for $130 ~8-10 weeks ago. Whew. Lucky. The Steam Machine I think is part of why these things are now suddenly super in demand but also, yeah, it was a riotously good deal for a long time; thank you for this one good thing crypto.

Just to note there are already over a half dozen esp32 based power controllers. The BT detect is cool. Reddit is at the "Yet Another esp32 controller" phase, has been for a while. (I'm not sure if yours is the first or not to do that, I think I've seen similar but maybe it was just yours I saw.) Bless you esp32. Thank you for actually having the obvious good thing, wireless, available for the world (and why did no one else deign do so?)! https://www.reddit.com/r/BC250Gaming/comments/1uylmj0/yet_an...

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upvoteby nsbk14 hours ago|
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Well played! I guess we’ll never see such prices anymore.

With regards to the wireless power on, I was definitely not the trail blazer. I’m just using https://github.com/Thunkar/bc250-esp32-switch

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upvoteby teaearlgraycold11 hours ago|
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I don’t see how you could run Qwen3.8 27B on 16GB of memory that’s shared with Linux. Are people running models at 2bit quants? Are they even worth bothering with? I had assumed you go down to 4bit and if you need to go smaller you have to lose parameters.
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upvoteby beacon29410 hours ago|
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You can, it's kind of cool to have this capability on something gaming at such a low price tag. Its not optimal for your time but beats nothing by a LOT. And that model is pretty reliable.

https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/dynamic-3.0-ggufs

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upvoteby NooneAtAll318 hours ago|
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> you still need ... DP to HDMI adapter

what for? just use DP

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upvoteby nsbk18 hours ago|
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In my particular case the HDMI goes directly into a sound bar which does not have a DP input. I assume most people building a box like this will connect it to a TV, which is most commonly HDMI-only. So technically not a strong requirement but practically almost
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upvoteby mplewis8 hours ago|
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My monitor doesn't have a DisplayPort port.
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