Palate Cleanser Music and Minecraft
Palate Cleanser: Turning a Brix Mini PC into a Minecraft Server & Music Player Work has been really busy since the new year, so my allocated training time has had to give way to more critical tasks. The test lab project has been on hold for now, however, I’ve still been doing some tinkering in my spare time. I took a short break from the lab and decided to work on a personal project. I picked up a Gigabyte Brix off eBay for about £60, a small form-factor PC, and decided to repurpose it. Instead of running Windows 10, I installed Ubuntu Server, which matched the default OS of my Raspberry Pis and NAS, keeping everything consistent across my setup. Here’s a quick rundown of what I did. Setting Up the Minecraft Server Installed Ubuntu Server – replacing the preinstalled Windows 10. Installed Docker & Portainer – to manage containers easily. Set up a Minecraft Docker container – now the whole family can join and play together. With the Minecraft server running, I had a comp...