Description

I was inspired to design a mini rack system for my raspberry pi cluster. In true me form, I went overboard and ordered too many parts so I ended up creating 2 different racks. The first one for my pi cluster and the other for my other switch and my Nvidia DGX Spark. I want to thank this page for so much inspiration. I went with two Black DeskPi RackMate T1 Rackmounts (8U). I have a Secret Lab Magnus Pro desk so I ended up mounting these using 2 Premium PC Mounts for an incredible under desk look.

Parts List (Top to Bottom)

Rack 1 (Silver Screws)

Front

• 2U Unifi USW Pro XG8 POE Switch in a custom printed mount by Calculated MFG
• 0.5U 12 Port Cat6 Patch Panel by DeskPi
• 1U DeskPi Blank Panel (included with rack)
• 2U DeskPi Vented Blank Panel to cover the DGX Spark
• 0.5U DeskPi Brush Panel
• 1U DeskPi Blank Panel (included with rack) covering the front a Tripp Lite 600VA Mini Desktop UPS
• 0.5U DeskPi Heavy Duty Rack Shelf
• DeskPi 120mm Fan

Back

• 1U DeskPi Blank Panel (included with rack)
• 1U DeskPi Blank Panel (included with rack)
• 1U DeskPi Rack Shelf to hold my power ricks for the switch and the DGX Spark's power supply
• 1U 40mm 3d Printed Fan Panel that holds 5 colored USB Fans that I spliced together into 1 USB Cord (I looked for a premade option but didn't find one)
• 1U DeskPi Rack Shelf to hold my DGX Spark.
• 2U Tripp Lite 600VA Mini Desktop UPS mentioned above.
• 0.5U Back of the Heavy Duty Rack Shelf mentioned above.

Rack 2 (Black Screws)

Front

• 1U Unifi USW Pro XG8 POE Switch powered off the other unifi switch running over ethernet through my cable manager in my desk in a custom printed mount by Calculated MFG
• 0.5U 12 Port Cat6 Patch Panel by DeskPi
• 0.5U DeskPi Brush Panel
• 2U 4x 16GB Raspberry Pi's running a Waveshare POE Hat and a Sunfounder Dual NVMe Raft with a 1TB WD NVMe and a Hailo 8 AI CoProcessor mounted in a DeskPi PCIE NVMe Board Mount for Raspberry Pi 5. I ended up modding this a little just because of the Hat and Raft I used.
• 2U DeskPi 84 inch touch screen 1280x400. I haven't configured this yet but have plans to show network stats on it from the Pi Cluster.
• 1U DeskPi Blank Panel (included with rack) covering the front a Tripp Lite 350VA Mini Desktop UPS
• 0.5U DeskPi Heavy Duty Rack Shelf
• DeskPi 120mm Fan

Back

• 1U DeskPi Blank Panel (included with rack)
• 1U DeskPi Audio Video Panel
• 1U 40mm 3d Printed Fan Panel that holds 5 colored USB Fans that I spliced together into 1 USB Cord (I looked for a premade option but didn't find one) - I didn't have this one installed when I took the photos but it's just like the other one in the other rack except it has black screws.
• 2U DeskPi Blank Panel
• 1U DeskPi Vented Blank Panel hiding my Sunfounder Pironman 5 with 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 and 1TB WD NVMe
• 2U Tripp Lite 350VA Mini Desktop UPS mentioned above.
• 0.5U Back of the Heavy Duty Rack Shelf mentioned above.

All in all this was a fun little project that I went wayyyyyyy over budget on. I'm running K3s on my Ubuntu Linux Cluster of 5 Raspberry Pi's and using the DGX Spark for AI testing and model building. I'd love any suggestions and am happy to answer anyones questions.