Anyone I know built an RPi cluster? Like those little 3-4 pi toy looking racks that would fit in a shoebox? They look very cute. But what exactly would you do with them?
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Each time I visit Real Engineers™ in SV, I get an itch to do a baby version of whatever they’re doing. In this case I just spent a couple of days with engineers building multi-million dollar rack systems and I feel like making a multi-hundred-dollar rack system
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It’s like how I hankered for toy trains after taking train rides as a kid
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There’s nothing computationally you can do with them that isn’t cheaper to do on a regular PC. The use case is mainly to get practice with distributed computing systems like Kubernetes.
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I run several Bitcoin node projects on these. Most node runners only run 1 but feel as though things should be separated more for safety and privacy reasons. There are plenty of other use cases for running multiple pis.
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Still don't know what to do with my single RPI.
Thought of hosting an API at one point, but managing uptime, wifi, security, heating, etc.
Probably much more work and less transferable skills than a free cloud account.
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only context ive encountered in the wild was someone playing around w k8s (minikube iirc)
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People practice server and container orchestration at very low cost, very low power consumption, and with easy recovery because it's all desktop -local.
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