“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.”
“I tried loads of Raspberry Pi cases over the last seven years. My résumé: For a standalone application use a FLIRC case. They are just beautiful, and have integrated cooling. For applications requiring HAT: Very much depending on the HAT, but there is a case offered via HiFiBerry, though it is quite expansive. But from now on PiHut's Cluster Case is my choice for all other applications! Because of its simplicity the design is outstanding. So clean, no unnecessary accesories, and it really looks like glass. Fabrication is very precise, but I agree with Andy H. that a small leaflet with mounting instructions - including the fan connector - would help. 5 star+!”
“Pros:
- Heavier than I expected, feels like it isn't easily toppled.
- Goes together easily enough
Cons:
- The top acrylic plate is different from the other 2 plates. The bottom plate has a fan hole that won't be used. Why not a custom bottom plate? Or, why not the same plate for all 3 plates?
- No written instructions in the box. Pieces aren't symmetric, so, hard to know what way the installation should go. Easy to install one fan on the wrong side while piecing things together. Likewise, wasn't sure if the rounded domes go on top or bottom.
- Missing 1 standoff nut :cry:
- Assuming the rubber feet go on the screws, it doesn't feel like they'll last on there...”
“Got a couple of these for Christmas and stacked up my 4 pi nicely. My only slight gripe and why it’s not a 5star is that when I came to do build I couldn’t find the online instructions as directed on the packaging. However it’s not rocket science and soon figured it out.”
