DIY Raspberry Pi cluster

DIY Raspberry pi cluster

Summary

I have few Raspberry Pis…stuck somewhere… I wanted to use it meaningfully. So I decided to build Raspberry Pi cluster. This is hardware building part of the whole story.

Scope of this article

Most interesting part (for me) is how those computers are configured and connected each other. But this part, is about hardware construction…which is more interesting to readers I believe.

Preparation

First, I prepared hardware like below;

• Raspberry Pis (2*4B, 2*3B+, 2*3B)
• External SSDs
• Frames * 3 (from Dollarama)
• Tie wraps
• Spacers
• Power bar
• Ethernet switch (8 port)
• Ethernet cables * 8
• Power supply for Raspberry Pi

Step 1. Putting Raspberry Pis together

I used spacers to put those together.

Raspberry Pi tower

Step 2. Putting everything on the frame

Assembled frames, and put everything on the frame, attaching to it using tie wraps.

Assembling

Step 3. Wiring (Ethernet and power)

Arranging cables nicely, using tie wraps here again.

That’s it!!