The bench is a mess. I’ve been buried in the P6T build, finally making progress, then of course I got sidetracked watching homelab videos on YouTube. Next thing I know, I’m thinking… maybe I should make my own. Not just a quick update—an actual build video.

That’s when I realized, filming a build adds a whole new layer of planning. So yeah, I just made this project way more complex… and probably more expensive too.

A lot of this stuff only happens once: the first boot, the first POST, that first shot of the old board actually firing up. No re-takes. So I’m just rolling with it: cleaning here, untangling cables there, grabbing shots when I can, and keeping the build moving.

Script is written. Camera setup is halfway there. Shooting starts tomorrow.

This box used to be a serious gaming rig. Now it’s moving on to its second life, the way a lot of old gaming PCs do, running as a nerdy little server in my homelab. The plan is to turn it into the floppy server for Failing Sectors, my retro web project built on old hardware and slow pages just for the fun of it. This ASUS P6T is from one of the last generations that shipped with a floppy controller.

Enough planning. Let’s actually build this thing.