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You might consider selling those boards in addition to hosting them. Although, I think there are already some products in this space.
Yes there are, but none with this feature set Considering selling them also.
So, CH340 and some basic well, other TTL logic? Do you have that setup for multiplexing? I find this interesting.
Pretty cool project, unfortunately I'm struggling to see the commercial opportunities here in it's current form. We live in a world of cheap and reliable x86 Virtual Machines.
Perhaps look at other boards with a better price to performance ratio. Look into sata disk options too (or co-locate somewhere you can get block storage - if you can meet certification requirements).
I think it's more about mingling with a Pi than beating 5€/mo Contabo/Hetzner/Kimsufi pricing because it just won't spec wise.
However if you wanted dedicated hardware and get the most out of your Pi why not give it a go?
Did you consider the Compute Module form factor?
Or similar developments elsewhere:
https://www.pine64.org/?product=clusterboard-with-7-sopine-compute-module-slots
https://www.pine64.org/?product=sopine-a64
While there might be a few people wanting that, I can't see a large enough use case to warrant the amount of work your investing honestly.
A... serial console? Or do i miss something here? I doubt anyone captures HDMI...
Nice board.
Do you power them on the GPIO pins? Keep in mind these are not fused and do not tolerate even minor overvoltage, unlike the micro USB.
Why the relais? There is a reset pin on the PI3... not sure what we had designed at EDIS back then, but it was fully digital cutting power.
Are this fuses low enough rated? They only blow at 1.5+ load usually.
Lastly, what do you input - 5V by the looks of it? Why not 12V and bucks per RPI? (Costs less than a relay and is digitally controllable-ish). 5V is horrible to get high A quality PSUs and cabling....
The RPi block diagram shows it is still crap, both SD and LAN share a single 480Mbit USB port on a hub with all other USB ports on top....
They kill SD cards left and right so most just have the bootloader there and use USB sticks - same performance anyway (well, better, shares same USB BW but way better flash than µSD).
Thanks!
You are right, serial console. Should've said container like console. An operational demo board already has this working. And for it's purpose, it works great
Yes, we power them by the GPIO pins, and have good PSUs for 5V which are of high quality. OVP has been implemented.
We use the relays as we want to use any kind of board. Some boards may not have a dedicated reset pin. That is why we've implemented support for both.
As for storage. Since the Pi3+ support network boot, we may go the route of just network booting all Pi's, but since it's still in development it's too early to say.
Thats a nice PCB, you got there, neat.
Any updates regarding colocation raspberry Pi hosting? Do you guys planing to support orange Pi too?
A TB of space for under 3$? I am interested in that