Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/16/rackmount-your-lone-raspberry.html
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What a glorious statement this would make sitting on my desk.
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This might solve a problem.
What that problem might be, I have no idea.
- Convince yourself that you need a multihundred node cluster to test ideas about message passing.
- Realize that you can’t get the node count without using Pis
- Realize that you now have several hundred pis sitting on your desk amid a rats nest of cabling…
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I think there has to be a rack, but that must be the only thing in it.
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Or now you have 100 problems… or whatever number of Pi’s you end up using.
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Racks might make everything look neat and tidy, but
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EarthLCD has had something like this available for a while - complete with front mounted LCD screen. I’m still trying to think of an excuse to get one, but so far no luck.
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That’s hilarious. Another way to go is a 1U project box. Attach an LCD display and a few flashing LEDs to make it even more awesome
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Or you can get desk with rack-mount panels:
A friend designed this desk, and I’ve manufactured it from Baltic birch plywood. There are more photos at friend’s site.
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I mounted mine in a small Adafruit case with a tiny lcd to the bottom of one of my monitors.
But don’t think for a second I didn’t look at rack mount options first. (I was worried I wouldn’t have enough space in my rack…)
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Mount it in a rubber duck
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Actually you can get rack floors and rack blinds quite cheap. I used a rack floor to mount a Pi, external HDD, USB hub and power supply in 1HU of a 8HU audio rack. The only practicable way to get rid of todays cable pest: the one tiny, lightweight device that has a dozen of thick, sturdy too long or too short cables coming out of every side of it. Now I just need similar ways to cram my USB DVB reciever, 7" display, DJ controller and these godawful desktop synthesizers that have mostly replaced rack synths.
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I have the sneaking suspicion that that is a bit of a low volume product. If you, for some reason, need that sort of pi density the computer modules would allow markedly higher density without the cable hassle; but would require producing enough carrier boards to make them individually cost effective; which is a number of carrier boards.
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Nice spinning disk ipod, so retro!
PiDucken!
First generation! Still works!
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I mean, I can kinda see this being useful if you’re using a pi as the driver for a status board.
I build test rigs around RPis. This would be useful if you mounted other components in the spare space but I don’t really see the point of a Pi-specific mount. Just get an empty case and drill holes anywhere you want.
