im happy with it so far tho. originally it was just a microcluster for k8s, rust & microservices but i decided to put mcus on it and use it for mcu development too. just needs polishing, e.g; cable ties arent ideal but work for now.

ill write an indepth blog post when i get the time, promise :) x

the handles are from old rack handles i took off my liebert gxt3000 ups, as i dont need them. its a bit of a mess right now as i removed the pi & im still waiting on an 128gb nvme to finish the top section, and squeezing a luckfox pico max inbetween them for light AI tasks and more mcu development.

originally it had a rk118tv box that i patched armbian into, but replaced it with a cm5 as it has more ram. everything is poe*, i managed to squeeze poe splitters behind the wyse nodes as they dont support native poe.

* except the cm5, just waiting on a hat.

have you got an ethernet cable? you can connect two computers directly this way. you would need to set a static ip address on both machines & set up a shared folder but theres plenty of step by step guides around showing you how to do this. would save you unplugging a usb each time :)

they really missed a trick by not calling this the Compote Module.

lampreys too. stuff of nightmares

knew i was onto something. the ethernet switch went green straight away, was staring at an orange led for hours even tho the mobo nic led was green!

then it was a simple case of installing the generic realtek family driver & directing xp to the NETRTLE.inf from a RTL 8168 x64 driver

success