02-17-2021, 10:28 PM
Hi kuleszdl! The project has been backburnered for a while, as we haven't ordered a case yet, which kind of holds up the rest of the project.
Having an adapter plate would be ideal, but no one seems to have covered this ground yet for ATX or ITX (although we did find someone who had made 3D-printed parts to mount an RP64 in a Power Mac G4 Cube, which is pretty great haha). We don't have a 3D printer or experience making models for one, but we know people who do, so it's possible we could work this one out on our own.
We're not particularly concerned with making all the I/O accessible, this being a server build. That said, we can cut holes in a generic I/O shield for whichever end of the board we care about being exposed (likely Ethernet and power), and run extension cables if there's anything else that would be nice to have access to outside the case. Could even rig something up to connect the USB2 ports to the front panel header connector.
Power/reset buttons are actually trivial for the RP64, since it has headers for power and reset lines :) LEDs are less concerning, but we could DIY them off GPIO easily enough.
The plan for cooling is to use case fans and have them blow across the 30mm-tall heatsink (already acquired).
Having an adapter plate would be ideal, but no one seems to have covered this ground yet for ATX or ITX (although we did find someone who had made 3D-printed parts to mount an RP64 in a Power Mac G4 Cube, which is pretty great haha). We don't have a 3D printer or experience making models for one, but we know people who do, so it's possible we could work this one out on our own.
We're not particularly concerned with making all the I/O accessible, this being a server build. That said, we can cut holes in a generic I/O shield for whichever end of the board we care about being exposed (likely Ethernet and power), and run extension cables if there's anything else that would be nice to have access to outside the case. Could even rig something up to connect the USB2 ports to the front panel header connector.
Power/reset buttons are actually trivial for the RP64, since it has headers for power and reset lines :) LEDs are less concerning, but we could DIY them off GPIO easily enough.
The plan for cooling is to use case fans and have them blow across the 30mm-tall heatsink (already acquired).
