A photo gallery post shows a smart-home control panel assembled from vintage hardware. The builder writes that everything in it works and runs on Home Assistant, including a voice assistant, but that they wanted to draw attention to the physical side: every part they could buy is an original from the 1960s and 70s, some of it iconic to people who remember communist-era Poland, and whatever they couldn't find they built themselves. They describe the panel as one piece of a bigger retro project.

It was the top thread of our sweep relative to community size: about 5,000 upvotes in a 386,000-member community. The replies are almost entirely admiration ("completely over the top," one top comment says, approvingly); one praises it as a break from AI-generated projects, and many ask for a detailed video, which the builder says they will make.