Project: Turn an Old Computer Tower Into an SBC Cluster/Server Rack - Disassembly and Prep

By Bo Lechnowsky, President of ameriDroid.com:

We use a lot of SBCs at ameriDroid. Here are a small selection of previous blog articles to give an idea of what we are doing with them:

• How-To: Fix OS Partition with Zero Bytes Free on SBCs Running Linux From Another SBC Running Linux

• News: Operating e-Commerce Business During Regional Power Outage

• How-To: Change the Hostname of your Linux System From the Command Line

• How-To: Set Up A Round-Robin Webserver On Your SBC Cluster

• How-To: Create RAID Array on Armbian/Debian-based Systems

• How-To: Monitor SoC Temperature in Armbian at the Command Prompt

• Project: Packing SBC Goodness into a Mid-ATX Tower

• Project: Mounting Clusterboard in an ATX Mini Tower

• Watch: Bo From ameriDroid.com on Category5.tv

This new project's aim is to turn an old 486 full tower case into the equivalent of a server rack for traditional servers, but much, much smaller and more power efficient!

BTW, this 486 was slated to go to e-waste, but we saved it from the scrap pile. Surprisingly, it was amazingly clean like it was just unboxed, even though it is probably about 25 years old. We didn't do any pre-cleaning on this tower!

Watch Part 2 here.