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Not the way I went on my home network, but still a good write-up. Always like reading and seeing how people solve problems that go beyond "I bought a 42U rack a

Not the way I went on my home network, but still a good write-up. Always like reading and seeing how people solve problems that go beyond "I bought a 42U rack and installed it in my basement." I'm going to steal the idea of the Raspberry Pi on the phone stand idea, especially when just hacking around with an SBC at my desk. I would recommend replacing all those USB power adapters with just one or two dedicated USB power adapters. Can recommend the six-port 60W model by Anker that will happily run all those devices you have, and then some.

HeYmaney 4y ago
> I'm going to steal the idea of the Raspberry Pi on the phone stand idea, especially when just hacking around with an SBC at my desk. Yeah me too! What model of stand is it tho? and how would you keep them attached? Looking at the pictures it seems different from one pi to another.
- justinlloyd 4y ago
  Not sure, but my wife bought a number of stands that look very similar, made of 2mm metal with some rubber pads to protect the desk and the phone. Will probably put some heat shrink around the metal arms so that they don't inadvertently come in contact with the back side of an exposed SBC.
giobox 4y ago
You can add PoE (Power over Ethernet) to the Pi 4 or Pi 3B+ pretty cheaply (10-15 dollar hat), and avoid the USB power supply altogether. Not strictly necessary, but makes the wiring so much simpler/cleaner as just one single ethernet cable doing power and data, and you can expand into other neat PoE solutions. My Pi cluster is powered by my ethernet switch alone. It makes wiring a UPS into the system really easy too - just have backup power on the ethernet switch, the downstream Pis are taken care of. I'd love if the Pi 5 just has PoE out of the box personally, I run all my Pi projects this way now.
- justinlloyd 4y ago
  I am unsure why you are telling me this. I am aware of the RPi PoE HATs, but the OP looks like he has a number of other USB powered devices beyond a single SBC, and it doesn't look like he has a PoE switch. For $30 or thereabouts he can replace all of the USB PSUs which will simplify the cabling and be a little more energy efficient.

HeYmaney 4y ago

> I'm going to steal the idea of the Raspberry Pi on the phone stand idea, especially when just hacking around with an SBC at my desk. Yeah me too! What model of stand is it tho? and how would you keep them attached? Looking at the pictures it seems different from one pi to another.

justinlloyd 4y ago
Not sure, but my wife bought a number of stands that look very similar, made of 2mm metal with some rubber pads to protect the desk and the phone. Will probably put some heat shrink around the metal arms so that they don't inadvertently come in contact with the back side of an exposed SBC.

giobox 4y ago

You can add PoE (Power over Ethernet) to the Pi 4 or Pi 3B+ pretty cheaply (10-15 dollar hat), and avoid the USB power supply altogether. Not strictly necessary, but makes the wiring so much simpler/cleaner as just one single ethernet cable doing power and data, and you can expand into other neat PoE solutions. My Pi cluster is powered by my ethernet switch alone. It makes wiring a UPS into the system really easy too - just have backup power on the ethernet switch, the downstream Pis are taken care of. I'd love if the Pi 5 just has PoE out of the box personally, I run all my Pi projects this way now.

justinlloyd 4y ago
I am unsure why you are telling me this. I am aware of the RPi PoE HATs, but the OP looks like he has a number of other USB powered devices beyond a single SBC, and it doesn't look like he has a PoE switch. For $30 or thereabouts he can replace all of the USB PSUs which will simplify the cabling and be a little more energy efficient.