Arctic Home Lab

The Project

Custom designed modular rack for Raspberry Pi clusters and a Raspberry Pi powered NAS. Based off of four 2020 aluminum extrusions. Designed in Fusion 360 and made to be printable on a 180mm x 180mm x 180mm 3D printer build volume. I plan on eventually posting STLs and CAD files to Prusa Printers when the project is more towards completion. Finished Modules: Raspberry Pi Blade 8 Bay 2.5 inch Drive Enclosure 120mm Fan Mount Planned Modules: Drive Enclosure Backplane Power Supply Power Distribution Ethernet Switch Video Script: Hello, My name is Jonathan. And my project is called Arctic Home lab. It is a Raspberry Pi based modular home lab rack that’s easy to upgrade as more parts are printed and/or purchased. I made Arctic as a way to not only improve my skills with using Fusion 360 and designing for 3D printing , but also as a way of getting started with Linux server management, Docker, and Ansible. My goals for the design were for it to be power efficient , modular, semi-portable , and relatively inexpensive. One difficulty I had was figuring out a way to mount modules on the aluminum extrusions. What I used for a while was some 3d printed T-Slot inserts that I would screw into but these did not last long if you want to add and remove modules more than once. More recently I was inspired to make what I have been calling T-keys. They are similar to a screw and t-nut fused together. These T-keys are 3d printed and much easier to use and super easy to print. They are heavily inspired by the Voron 2.2 3D printer’s panel mounts. If I had more time before submitting my project I would finish developing the module mount points on the side panels. These will eventually be used for mounting modules for things such as a power supply or Ethernet switch.

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