Crazy 3D-Printer and HomeServer Cabinet

The entrance of my flat was in dire need for a makeover, so me and my girlfriend @verena decided to replace the mess with custom made furniture from Austrian interior manufacturer Petermax. (This is not an endorcement we payed full price for the furniture😉)

Previous Situation

Starting from the bottom there is a lot of 2D and 3D Printing Equipment, a bunch of cables for power and networking and our mini server and ColdNAS. On the first level we have my 3D-Printers [Prusa Mini+ and Bambu Lab X1c] and above a Kitchen furniture from IKEA that contains the AMS of the Bambu Lab, further filament and the NAS on Top. This will not get replaced for now.

Requirements

Place for the 2D-Printer that allows using the Scanner
Place for the mini server, ColdNAS and networking
Sufficient ventilation for approx. 50W of equipment per side
Sturdy surface for 3D-Printers and hole for Bambu Lab Poop Chute with collection container below
Cabinet needs to be easily removable to access the chimney
Outside plug for charging of e-scooter with power measurement
Seperate Power measurement on different circuts within the cabinet. (3D-Printers, mini server, remaining)
Opitonal: Storage for Filament
Optional: Place for NAS

Design process

Together with the architect at Petermax we went through the requirements and measurements and decided on a cabinet with a kitchen corpus. Since I wanted a lot of holes for routing Cables and the Bambu Poop Chute the friendly architect advised us on drilling the holes ourselves while constructing since having them predrilled would come quite expensive.

For the in cabinet electronics i went with:

Shelly PM2 for the 3D-Printers Amazon
3x Shelly PM mini for the server, nas and e-scooter Amazon
Big junction box for all the electronics Amazon
Surface-mounted sockets 1-way 2-way 4-way
Unifi Switch 16 Amazon

Constrution

The manual that came with the pieces was more of a universal manual for constructing all kinds of kitchen cabinets. On a difficulty scale of 0 to 10, where 1 is XXXLutz and 9 is IKEA i would assign it a solid 5. Together with my handy friends @jakob [master of drilling] and @max [dj] we where able to construct the cabinet in about 10 hours. Our measurements turned out to be pretty good, only the skirt board needed to be rasped down a few millimeters.

Bambu Poop Chute

The bambu poop chute works like a charm. I might replace the poop box at some point.

Conclusion

I am very happy with the way the project turned out! Altough the cabinet was not cheap it appears to be a quality piece of furniture. At first i was worried that the vibrations of the Bambu Lab Printer would shake the whole cabinet but it is so sturdy I don’t even have to brace it against the walls. I am still looking for a good solutoin for storing my filament rolls and I might replace the poop box at some point.