No – you’re not hallucinating – this is a fully working EX8208 in my hallway – because why not 🙂
After all those years I FINALLY got my Hands on an old Juniper-Chassis big enough and still “fresh” enough to fit my next weekend-project: Mini-Fridge 2.0 😉

My Plan is to use a custom designed PCB to control all (and I litreally mean ALL) LED’s AND Fans that all the Linecards and Chassis and PSUs have to offer while simultaneously program blink-patterns depending on the fill-level of the fridge. The Cards themselves will be “cut” and act as a front-plate for the fridge inside. The LCD that you see on the top will be hacked and display the amount of cans left in the fridge and if it falls below a warning and a critical threshold it will light up the warning or ALARM LED. It will also show the inside Temperature and Humidity and send those Infos via my beloved MQTT-S Protocol straight into my Homeassistant for nice Grafana Dashboards 😉 Currently waiting for the produced PCB to be delivered and once it’s here (after a little bit of soldering) I will present the final result 😛 And yes – Slot1 will also have the EX9200-48T Card (already on the way to my home address). Stay tuned…