Battlestation
My happy place — multiple displays, too many dials, and a self-hosted homelab humming away in the background. Over-engineered and wired together in a way that probably shouldn't run as well as it does. Here's the whole rig, top to bottom.
The evolution, 2007 → present. Two decades of the same disease. Full-size gallery »
The gear
- Input
- Keychron Q1 HE · Logitech G Pro X Superlight · MX Master 3 · Apple Magic Trackpad · DualShock 4
- Dials & control
- Stream Deck XL · Stream Deck+ · Ulanzi D100H dial · Ulanzi TC001 pixel clock
- Capture & A/V
- Sony a5100 · Elgato Cam Link · Shure MV7 · Elgato Key Light Mini
- Dock & wearable
- CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt dock · Garmin Fenix 8
Desktop & streaming software
- Tiling desktop
- komorebi + whkd + YASB, scripted with PowerShell
- Polish
- Wallpaper Engine — tinted into the bar & taskbar by my own color-sync tool
- Streaming
- OBS Studio driven from the Stream Deck / Elgato gear, with custom capture pipelines
- Glanceable
- AWTRIX on the Ulanzi TC001 — live scoreboards and dashboards on a pixel clock
Half the fun is the control surfaces: the dials scroll video feeds, swap audio devices, and ride master volume. Most of that is open source — see Projects.
Full hardware & software list →Down the hall
Brendan Welsh — Sacramento · 2026 · back home