Decided to build the Pi Rack. Phase 1 will be just powering the rack through the gpio header pins 2,4,6, and 14. I ordered the Mean Well LRS-350-5, a Fuse Block, a Raspberry Pi 5, some 2-pin Molex Micro-fit 3.0 connectors, and a breakout board that supports Ferrules.
Fought a long time with Gen AI getting the image correct. Still not correct but you get the idea.
Spent the whole day designing a self-contained Pi cluster rack. Had so much fun doing it. Now I want to build it. I am seriously thinking about doing this. Have it split into a 7-stage design process so it isn’t hard on the wallet. No more than 4 Pi Raspberry Pis until proof of concept…
After a bit of work, I got the PI 5 to boot off the headers with no warnings. That was a big relief. Now I can order the remaining supplies and put the rack together. A couple of settings in the config.txt were needed. Rebooted and everything ran fine. I tested the voltage using the…