{"id":574,"date":"2013-03-11T12:46:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T01:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tester.id.au\/?p=574"},"modified":"2015-10-02T01:30:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T01:30:53","slug":"raspberry-pi-stack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/raspberry-pi-stack\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi Stack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found the Raspberry Pi a while ago, first time I have found time to post on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using the Pi&#8217;s as server type devices for my Home Automation projects &amp; other interests. so I had a need to put several Pi&#8217;s in my rack &amp; a way to hold them\u00a0successfully. I found that\u00a0<a title=\"Geekroo.com\" href=\"http:\/\/geekroo.com\/site\/\" target=\"_blank\">geekroo.com<\/a>\u00a0has several mounting options for the Pi &amp; the one that allows you to stack several together. Their\u00a0Aussie Bone 2.0 has a stacking plate to allow more that one Pi to be stacked.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a\u00a0mock up\u00a0photo of the stack showing four Pi&#8217;s stacked together, headless with Wi-Fi access &amp; powered via a USB hub. The photo below it shows the stack installed into my rack.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3049\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3049\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raspberry-Pi-1351.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3049\" src=\"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raspberry-Pi-1351-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"RPI Stack\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raspberry-Pi-1351.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raspberry-Pi-1351-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RPI Stack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3050\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3050\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raspberry-Pi-1371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3050\" src=\"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raspberry-Pi-1371-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"RPI Stack in the Rack\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raspberry-Pi-1371.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raspberry-Pi-1371-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RPI Stack in the Rack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You only need one Aussie Bone 2.0 &amp; then one stacking plate for each additional Pi to be stacked.<\/p>\n<p>Also pictured is my <a title=\"Freetronics.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freetronics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freetronics.com<\/a>\u00a0EtherTen that collects currently four temperatures from around the house &amp; posts them to the MQTT Raspberry Pi Server in the stack. Next is to have the Raspberry Pi Pancake Web Server also in the stack, display the MQTT data on a page for\u00a0integration\u00a0into the house control pages, currently on a XP box below in the rack, soon to be moved to the Pi stack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found the Raspberry Pi a while ago, first time I have found time to post on the subject. I&#8217;m using the Pi&#8217;s as server type devices for my Home Automation projects &amp; other interests. so I had a need to put several Pi&#8217;s in my rack &amp; a way to hold them\u00a0successfully. I found that\u00a0geekroo.com\u00a0has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/raspberry-pi-stack\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raspberry Pi Stack<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-574","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}