Welcome to the ultimate home lab setup! In this video, I give you a tour of my 3D printed rackmount cluster. Watch the video to see how it looks and functions!
You’re probably here for the 3D print files so you can make your own 2U rack mount cluster chassis. I developed this system to securely attach to a pair of rackmount shelves, where the hot-swap tray plates connect. Let’s start with some pictures:
Above you can see all of the required components. Let’s discuss them:
- You will need to print two of each of the Rackmount Plates, one for the top, one for the bottom. This will form the “chassis” of the rack mount system, providing an accurately-spaced slot for each blade to slide into and latch in place.
- To lock the plates in place to the metal shelf, you will need 10 of the Twist-Lock Clips for both the top and bottom plates, 20 in total.
- The last two parts make up the “Sled” part of the Hot Swap tray. The tray itself is where the Single Board Computer (Such as a Rasbperry Pi, Rock4 / 5, OrangePi, or basically any “Rasberry Pi” form-factor SBC you choose) will attach with screws. The PoE Bracket clips onto the “tail” of the hot-swap tray, to hold it in place.
Here’s the link to the rackmount shelves the Rackmount Plates will attach to.
Important! Make sure you order the 12″ depth version, not the shorter 10″. It is possible the grid hole spacing is the same on both, but I have not tested and cannot be sure it will fit!
When you mount the metal shelves themselves to your rack, the top shelf, which the Rackmount Plates will attach to the bottom of, forming the top edge of the rackmount rails, will be installed in your rack upside-down: This will result in having a usable shelf above your cluster, with a lip around it, since the completely flat side of the shelf needs to face down, to mount the Rackmount Plates to.
Next here’s a view of how the Hot Swap trays slide into the Plates, with the PoE bracket attached:
This should get you going! Here are all of the .STL files for the parts referenced here!
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