Independent home lab

CheshirCa
Nest.

Where curiosity becomes code, hardware finds its purpose, and ideas get infrastructure of their own.

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CheshirCa Nest — Cheshire cat and circuit traces

Self-hosted · Open source · Homelab

01 / About me

Behind every service,
a person with a screwdriver.

// user: Антон
// role: sysadmin
// location: home lab

Hi, I’m Anton, a system administrator. CheshirCa Nest is my home lab for development and experimentation. Networks, servers and microcontrollers meet a curiosity about how things work.

I work with MikroTik, Windows Server and Debian, and build IoT projects with ESP8266 and ESP32. I like simple, practical solutions and keeping my infrastructure under my own control.

MikroTikDebianWindows ServerESP8266 / ESP32Orange PiPureBasic

02 / My projects

Inside the lab

43 original projects. Expand a category to explore descriptions and repositories.

github.com/CheshirCa ↗

01Networks & administration9

MikroTik-WinBox-CDB-Decoder

Read WinBox address books, export to CSV/JSON and convert legacy Cyrillic text to UTF-8.

Mikrotik-RSC-comment-converter

Convert comments from RouterOS .rsc exports to UTF-8 for WinBox 4.

Gateways

Monitor TCP services and VPN gateways from the Windows tray, with alerts, logs and response-time charts.

SMB-Browser

A central catalog of SMB servers and shares, with a local cache for Explorer and FAR Manager.

WServ-Minimal-HTTP-File-Server-for-RouterOS

A minimal Windows HTTP server for exchanging files with RouterOS on a trusted local network.

Nextcloud-ocs-sensors-for-prtg

PowerShell PRTG sensors for Nextcloud health, performance and statistics through the OCS API.

rdps

Select a host and RDP session interactively for Shadow viewing or remote control.

RDP-monitor

Windows notifications when RDP Shadow viewing or remote control starts and stops.

tbot

A Telegram bot for managing MikroTik routers over SSH with key-based authentication.

02Displays & terminals6

WeAct35

A C library and Linux CLI tools for WeAct USB displays: text, images, QR codes and a terminal.

WeActDisplay

A PureBasic library for WeAct FS 0.96″ and 3.5″ displays connected over a serial port.

WeAct-FS-USB-Display-for-Linux

Linux tools for WeAct FS 0.96″: Cyrillic text output, a mini terminal and system status displays.

CYD-Display-Library-for-PureBasic

Firmware and a PureBasic library for ESP32-CYD graphics, touch input, audio and SD-card access.

CYD_terminal

An ESP32-CYD UART terminal with ANSI/VT100, an on-screen keyboard, web viewing and MicroSD logging.

KeyboardLayoutLCD

Show the active Windows keyboard layout on a WeAct 0.96″ USB display, with configurable colors and orientation.

03IoT, clocks & sensors5

rack-environment-monitor-esp01

An ESP-01 server-room temperature, humidity and pressure sensor with a web dashboard, SNMP and monitoring integrations.

ESP32-C3-Clock

A compact ESP32-C3 OLED clock with NTP, alarms, a timer and browser-based control.

ESP32-S3-Zero-alarm-clock

An ESP32-S3 TFT clock with weather, sensors, multiple alarms and web configuration.

ESP32-Network-Meteostation

An ESP32-C3 weather station with an OLED display and AHT20 and BMP280 sensors.

ESP32-LED-CPUmeter

A USB CPU-load indicator combining ESP32-C3, an OLED, addressable LEDs and a PureBasic client.

04Devices & diagnostics8

HDMI_Tester

An HDMI/DVI test-pattern generator and EDID diagnostic tool for an RP2350B-PiZero modified with 8 MB PSRAM.

COM_Echo_Tool

A graphical Windows serial-port tester with command sending, echo and ASCII, HEX and RAW views.

DevWatch

Shows newly connected Windows devices, their classes and VID/PID in a popup.

SDR101_Controller

Control an SDR101 receiver over a serial port with a GUI for frequency, modulation, volume and presets.

WiFiAndroidKVM

Send Windows mouse and keyboard input to Android over Wi-Fi without video. Android requires root and uinput.

Controller-for-the-USB-Missile-Launcher

Control the Tenx desktop USB Missile Launcher toy through a Windows GUI or command line.

Crypto-Kakadu-CLI-tools

Independent Crypto Kakadu tools for device database transfer and JSON ↔ .kkd conversion.

Crypto-Kakadu-KeePass-Plugin

A KeePass 2 plugin for .kkd import/export and direct database transfer to and from Crypto Kakadu.

05PureBasic libraries3

TurboVisionPB

A binary Windows text-interface SDK with a DLL, include file, documentation and PureBasic examples.

LayoutMonitor

A PureBasic module that detects the foreground Windows keyboard layout without hooks or external DLLs.

KeyboardHook

A PureBasic library and demo for receiving Windows keyboard-layout changes through a global hook.

06AI & digital libraries5

AI_Library_Renamer

Rename and categorize book archives using a local Ollama LLM and OCR for scanned documents.

AI-file-renamer-for-library

Analyze archives, documents and images with OCR and suggest meaningful names based on their contents.

BookSorter

Sort books using topic rules and regular expressions, with hard-link and dry-run support.

AI_Transl

Translate selected text through Gemini AI, with hotkeys, multiple languages and tray access.

gemini_bot

A Gemini AI Telegram bot for answering requests in configured chats.

07Everyday tools5

ManHelper

An offline PuTTY and KiTTY companion that shows Linux man pages for commands copied from the terminal.

Disk-Info-Tool

A Windows console tool for inspecting physical disks, volumes, file systems and free space.

it-outsource

Local tracking of clients, service requests, completed work and pricing in a browser or on Android.

MagneticoViewer

Browse and search metadata in local magnetico SQLite databases and copy magnet links.

antispam-telebot

A Telegram anti-spam bot with arithmetic challenges for new members and an owner web panel.

08Games & retro2

Xonix

A Python curses Xonix/Qix-style arcade game with a green text-terminal aesthetic.

Xonix-PB

A PureBasic console version of Xonix for Windows, with territory capture, levels and two enemy types.

03 / My 3D models

From an idea
to a physical form.

My 3D models and posts on 3D-printing platforms.

Designs on ThingiverseThingiverse Models on PrintablesPrintables Blog on 3DToday3DToday

04 / Friends & employers

Friends & employers

05 / Contact

Good ideas
start with “hello”.

Talk home labs, share experience, or come up with something together.

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