I have a bad habit of browsing eBay way too late and buying weird little computers, and this time I ended up with a Logic Supply (now OnLogic) RT130-i3 rugged vehicle PC for basically nothing. In this video I clean it up, figure out how to power it (spoiler: the IGN pin matters), crack it open, and try to make sense of all the ports—quad gigabit NICs, dual SIM slots, serial, DIO/GPIO, and two hot-swap 2.5" drive bays that are just begging to be used in a homelab project. Once I got it booting, I tested it as a desktop (Linux Mint was totally usable for light tasks), checked power draw and thermals (passive cooling actually did great), and then did what you probably expected: I turned it into a router. I installed OPNsense with a ZFS mirror on two SSDs and it handled a full gigabit connection without breaking a sweat—until I tried pushing VPN traffic, where the lack of AES-NI on this Ivy Bridge i3 really shows. I also played with expansion using mini PCIe adapters (including adding 2.5GbE), did some truly questionable SATA power “jank,” and even tried it as an actual car PC. It was fun, but my specific unit had corrosion and instability, so the big takeaway is: these can be awesome… if you get one that isn’t half-dead.