Eric D. Wertz

About a month ago I finally ordered the 5TB drives I had been eyeing as part of the storage upgrade for my thin client server. After some test fitting I came up with a plan on how to get the drive fit into the case. It's going to involve cutting down the main heatsink as well as installing some 40mm fans with a custom controller to keep everything quiet when the server is not in use.

Here are the drives: 2.5 inch 5TB drives from Seagate. They are thicker than normal laptop HDD's

Showing roughly how the drives will be positioned inside the case

About a year ago I decided to finally put together an indoor garden / hydroponics system in my basement. Here are some pictures from when I first set it up. 

I build the whole table structure out of 2x4's and some old solid shelf pieces. The grow bed itself is about 2ftx3ft and about 1ft deep. The black plastic in the picture above was my first attempt at creating a waterproof basin, but it was also reused and had some holes in it so I ended up redoing the plastic with a brand new clear drop cloth. This survived the initial filling with water and hasn't broken yet. I purposefully over sized the pieces of wood that hold up the light so that I could adjust the height of the lights if needed.

Here's some pictures of a stand for a record player that I built a few months ago. I tried to do a waterfall design, where the grain pattern carries over between the edges. My cheap Harbor Freight table saw doesn't really have the accuracy to bevel cut the boards like I needed to, but the end result was close enough. 

For the finish I used a water based polyurethane. The pictures here were taken while it was still drying, the end result still has some gloss but I think another coat or two would have made it shinier.