“Bought 2 so I can build a 4-node cluster. Looks great when assembled. However one slight issue. The film on the acrylic layers would not peel off smoothly. I had to spray the corners with WD40 and leave for several minutes. Fine after that.”
“A really nice packaged case with all the screws bagged up. This case is currently being used as a two node cluster, but in time more will be added. I was able to find the instructions online from the main board description and really, the only thing it was needed for was to work out the layout of the fans and to make sure they could reach the connector. It took me longer to take the protective sheets off than to build the entire case. A nice touch would be a small screwdriver included in the package just to speed things up.”
“Easy to assemble, my setup is 3 pi cluster. 1 for desktop, 1 file server with ovh, and 1 development system. All connected to a 5 port gigabit switch and powered by a multi-port psu from Amazon. One reservation is that fans don’t come with any sort of lock washers. Also, obviously, if you add a HAT, the fan will either not fit or not be effective. In all, a great way to support multiple Pi setup.”
“Nice clean design, I thought of putting on it's side when I read that the pi4 runs cooler that way, but the fans do the job, so it is not necessary. Maybe when I have a full cluster it may still be beneficial, we will see. I did have a small problem with a few bits missing, but they were sent out promptly. Very happy.”
“Actually used as a tall case for a NanoPi Neo Core2 with mini Shield board - used the top & bottom layers and most of the other connectors to make it double height so there was room for fan as well as heatsink. Works great, thanks!”
“simply the best ** I really tried a lot of RasPi cases, but the Cluster Case beats all - if you have a couple of servers running in the background. And it looks phantastically good.”
“As others have said, it would be nice to have a few instructions, even just a picture showing where all the screws go, but you can work it out without too much bother.
I bought two to stack three Pi's together, so I have a spare bottom plate and lots of fans and screws left over. I'm not using the fans as my Pi's are not working that hard.
Getting just Network, power and the odd USB cable to look pretty is not easy, but then the Pi does not really lend itself to a tidy set-up. The near glass look of the plastic is good though.
I built mine as in the pictures on this site and have the stick-on feet left over, the domed plastic nuts on the bottom of the stand-offs work as feet, the stick-on feet are too short to do any good. If you build the stand-off the other way, screws at the bottom and domed nuts at the top, then the stick-on feet can be used, but the domed nuts work better IMHO.”
